we always seem to be up against the old split between the north and the south, a split that predates the civil war by a couple of hundred years. the north was settled by puritans, who opposed the king of england. some of the puritans fled england and settled new england. plymouth rock and all that. not long afterward, the puritans overth…
we always seem to be up against the old split between the north and the south, a split that predates the civil war by a couple of hundred years. the north was settled by puritans, who opposed the king of england. some of the puritans fled england and settled new england. plymouth rock and all that. not long afterward, the puritans overthrew the king. the king and his followers had to flee. they landed in VA and settled the south. jamestown and all that. the north has always been dynamic and up for change, industrial, while the south has its heels dug in, an advocate for the old ways, agrarian. the puritans and the cavaliers still hate each other. why is it that extremists have not taken over the dems, but the supposedly level-headed GOP? a couple of quotes that might apply: a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds; winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. meanwhile, there are those who think the US can withstand anything and rise from the ashes like a phoenix bird, so why not play with fire? that's one way to avoid having to submit a budget. in their juvenile way they haven't realized yet that "what counts is what you learn after you know it all." we are currently playing out a melodrama, which we do periodically, all the dialogue written, unable to change a word of it. talk about march madness. pray for the joint chiefs.
This is an interesting observation and our country does seem to have this split, in mentality at least, between "north" and "south." I put those in quotes because whereas this at one time may have been strictly locational, it seems that it is now more of a state of mind and either mindset can be found in any part of the Union. The "northern" mindset, in my opinion, is similar to your description of someone more experimental and inclined to novel approaches. The "southern" mindset, as you described, more inclined to preserving things as they have always been done. Being in the northeast, I encountered more than my share of 'cavaliers' here, some of them with a curious affinity for the Royals, and they have never lived anywhere else in the country.
I appreciated the phoenix analogy too. If the most careless of the GQP really do have such an extreme view of American Exceptionalism; where the country completely unravels from economic disaster, falls into dystopian hellscape and miraculously become a shining beacon immediately afterwards, we are in the deepest pit of excrement imaginable.
we always seem to be up against the old split between the north and the south, a split that predates the civil war by a couple of hundred years. the north was settled by puritans, who opposed the king of england. some of the puritans fled england and settled new england. plymouth rock and all that. not long afterward, the puritans overthrew the king. the king and his followers had to flee. they landed in VA and settled the south. jamestown and all that. the north has always been dynamic and up for change, industrial, while the south has its heels dug in, an advocate for the old ways, agrarian. the puritans and the cavaliers still hate each other. why is it that extremists have not taken over the dems, but the supposedly level-headed GOP? a couple of quotes that might apply: a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds; winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. meanwhile, there are those who think the US can withstand anything and rise from the ashes like a phoenix bird, so why not play with fire? that's one way to avoid having to submit a budget. in their juvenile way they haven't realized yet that "what counts is what you learn after you know it all." we are currently playing out a melodrama, which we do periodically, all the dialogue written, unable to change a word of it. talk about march madness. pray for the joint chiefs.
This is an interesting observation and our country does seem to have this split, in mentality at least, between "north" and "south." I put those in quotes because whereas this at one time may have been strictly locational, it seems that it is now more of a state of mind and either mindset can be found in any part of the Union. The "northern" mindset, in my opinion, is similar to your description of someone more experimental and inclined to novel approaches. The "southern" mindset, as you described, more inclined to preserving things as they have always been done. Being in the northeast, I encountered more than my share of 'cavaliers' here, some of them with a curious affinity for the Royals, and they have never lived anywhere else in the country.
I appreciated the phoenix analogy too. If the most careless of the GQP really do have such an extreme view of American Exceptionalism; where the country completely unravels from economic disaster, falls into dystopian hellscape and miraculously become a shining beacon immediately afterwards, we are in the deepest pit of excrement imaginable.