Goals_June8_2015 - The Monday Morning Memo

Three Versions of History. Pick the one you like best. Be happy with it.

1: America was born when religious-freedom-hungry Pilgrims disembarked the Mayflower in 1620.
2: America was born when a group of rich white guys who didn’t want to pay taxes threw a shipload of tea into Boston Harbor 153 years later, in 1773.
3: America was born 3 years after that when our Declaration of Independence officially announced America’s separation from England.

If you chose version 1, you prefer FOX News.
If you chose version 2, you don’t prefer FOX News.
If you chose version 3, you try to avoid discussions of politics and religion.

Heh, heh, heh.

Indy

“[In America] the ‘almighty dollar’ is the true divinity, and it’s worship is universal. ‘Smartness’ is the quality thought most of. The boy who ‘gets on’ by cheating at his lessons is praised for being a ‘smart boy,’ and his satisfied parents foretell that he will make a ‘great man.’ A man who overreaches his neighbor, but who does it so cleverly that the law cannot take hold of him, wins an envied reputation as a ‘smart man,’ and stories of this species of smartness are told admiringly round every stove. Smartness is but the initial stage of swindling, and the clever swindler who evades or defies the weak and often corruptly administered laws of the States excites unmeasured adoration among the masses.”

- Isabella L. Bird (British explorer), “A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains,” 1873

Three Versions of History. Pick the one you like best. Be happy with it.

Indy

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