White Trash
Added 2020-07-29 11:49:36 +0000 UTCStill studying my family history....
It’s incredible the changes that an agrarian economy will make on a community, a country of untilled land that we now know as America.
Essentially, the English mindset was that untilled, Unworked land is trash.
If the land was unworked, meaning there were no farms, then the land was basically up for grabs. The English paid no mind to the fact that the indigenous peoples that lived on American soil before they got here worked the land in their own way. If they were agrarian they were passively agrarian, they did not see the need to work the land hard to squeeze every last drop of nutrients out of it. The English were not only happy to squeeze every last drop of nutrients out of it, they wanted money out of it. They wanted to turn that mud into money. And later we learned how to even squeeze the oil out of it.
Jeremy was just telling me how it’s obvious that Star Trek was written by Anglo white people because they claim in their utopian ideal “ to go where no man has gone before” yet, literally every single planet they go to is already inhabited by someone else.😂
Anyhow, it’s a good read🎉
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Added to the good reads list
Cleanwolf
2020-07-30 02:41:58 +0000 UTCActually there is more to the star trek opening words that explains planets already inhabited as Jeremy was saying. "to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!" So actually they were looking for life on other planets. And they were going were no man (humans) had gone before. BTW, If u actually watch star trek there's some interesting things. Some things we use today actually came from ideas based on those show(s). Communicator's became cell phones, touchscreens (starting on star trek: the next generation), wireless tablets, flat screen viewers, stun guns. There was a show I seen on TV & it was talking about how star trek was actually a important thing when it came to the technology we use today. Who knows what idea will become reality next... Anyhoo sorry for going off topic here lol, I read your comment on star trek & thought I'd chime in. This book definitely looks very interesting and worth taking a look at, Thanx for sharing it 👍
Lou Johnson
2020-07-29 21:15:20 +0000 UTC
