The mudsill posts identified conservative values that justified creating non-persons. While many white men imagine themselves to be exceptions, they are non-persons: poor white trash, in antebellum language. They merit no more considerations than...
Understanding Mudsill Theory is a threshold step toward deconstructing the American Myth. Absolutely, being a slave and being an exploited factory worker are different. However, both the slave and eight-year-old cotton mill worker are...
Harriet Flud Hampton (1823-1848) 1. Spring ILR (Institute for Learning in Retirement) is here. I’m taking three classes and teaching one. I may not be able to write one post a week. I’ll do...
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The Path
My favorite version of the Tao Te Ching chapter 64, stanza three reads: A tree as great as a man's embrace springs from a small shoot; A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts [with the path] under one's feet.
Moving beyond the current social and political chaos will be a long journey. The Purpose of this blog is to rediscover the principles that inspired the great American experiment with government by and for the people. Society must balance between the needs for change and stability; if either dominate, society is threatened. The goal of this site is to give followers information to judge for themeselves whether those principles are being ignored or manipulated.
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