The myth of the rugged individual in the frontier, particularly the west, combined with prejudice of other groups has been devastating. People have always needed to be cooperative to survive, but we are too easily manipulated by the pride of the self-made man. But our founding documents and religious tenants say otherwise. “We the people” and “love your neighbor” are simple but powerful!
The myth of the rugged individual in the frontier, particularly the west, combined with prejudice of other groups has been devastating. People have always needed to be cooperative to survive, but we are too easily manipulated by the pride of the self-made man. But our founding documents and religious tenants say otherwise. “We the people” and “love your neighbor” are simple but powerful!
And isn't that a myth, the rugged individual. By avocation I am a genetic genealogist,and I have done a lot of research, reading not only documents, but scouring census, deeds, wills and reading long out of date books.
Those of us with long roots in America have ancestors that packed up and moved every generation, either because the land had gone fallow due to monocultuure or because of fecundity, the older son inherited the property of Dad and younger sons had to pack up and move to newly opened land.
And when they moved it wasn't a single ox drawn wagon it was in the company of family and friends, groups of families razed (to collect nails) and then raised homes and barns together, There were no rugged individuals.
After the Creek Indian war in Georgia, the federal road, created by an infantry company out of Columbus, became an interstate highway, with thousands of Georgians and South Carolinian's flooding into Alabama and Mississippi. One traveler,on horseback, noted that as far as he could see in either direction thee was nothing but a trail of wagons and slaves..
Travel at most was 10 miles a day, and they would stop to camp, and eat before sunset, everyone one pitched in.
In 1848, the pastor of Ocmulgee Baptist Church owned cotton land that became fallow, so he put together a wagon train of people related to is wife, and driving slaves and cattle before them it took a month to reach Union Parish, LA. losing quite a few cattle and slaves on the trip.
When they arrived at their destination, all of the kin folk helped each other in establishing their own homesteads, none of them could do it own their own.
Yeh, kind of blows away the myth of Christian charity, or even Christians helping each other.
I lived with my uncle an ordained southern baptist preacher who built his church from a chicken coop, with his own hands until he could con his congregation into backing a building fund and turn it into a brick church.
I am more than familiar with Christian charity, hypocrisy and bigotry.
The myth of the rugged individual in the frontier, particularly the west, combined with prejudice of other groups has been devastating. People have always needed to be cooperative to survive, but we are too easily manipulated by the pride of the self-made man. But our founding documents and religious tenants say otherwise. “We the people” and “love your neighbor” are simple but powerful!
And isn't that a myth, the rugged individual. By avocation I am a genetic genealogist,and I have done a lot of research, reading not only documents, but scouring census, deeds, wills and reading long out of date books.
Those of us with long roots in America have ancestors that packed up and moved every generation, either because the land had gone fallow due to monocultuure or because of fecundity, the older son inherited the property of Dad and younger sons had to pack up and move to newly opened land.
And when they moved it wasn't a single ox drawn wagon it was in the company of family and friends, groups of families razed (to collect nails) and then raised homes and barns together, There were no rugged individuals.
After the Creek Indian war in Georgia, the federal road, created by an infantry company out of Columbus, became an interstate highway, with thousands of Georgians and South Carolinian's flooding into Alabama and Mississippi. One traveler,on horseback, noted that as far as he could see in either direction thee was nothing but a trail of wagons and slaves..
Travel at most was 10 miles a day, and they would stop to camp, and eat before sunset, everyone one pitched in.
In 1848, the pastor of Ocmulgee Baptist Church owned cotton land that became fallow, so he put together a wagon train of people related to is wife, and driving slaves and cattle before them it took a month to reach Union Parish, LA. losing quite a few cattle and slaves on the trip.
When they arrived at their destination, all of the kin folk helped each other in establishing their own homesteads, none of them could do it own their own.
Sounds like a communal (federal) effort.
I live in a disaster area still in WNC. There were no helicopters rescues from neighbors and no interstate roads repaired by churches.
Yeh, kind of blows away the myth of Christian charity, or even Christians helping each other.
I lived with my uncle an ordained southern baptist preacher who built his church from a chicken coop, with his own hands until he could con his congregation into backing a building fund and turn it into a brick church.
I am more than familiar with Christian charity, hypocrisy and bigotry.