WIBCI we learned from HISTORY?
Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we learned instead of repeated?
Howard Zinn’s ‘A People’s History of the United States’ is a no holds barred, curt, straight forward, brutally honest, account of the founding of this country. While skimming through it recently I was struck by how many phrases that were describing over 2.5 centuries ago ring so very true today.
(Circa 1839) “Certain men in the farm country became leaders and organizers: Smit Boughton, a country doctor on horseback; Ainge Devyr, a revolutionary Irishman. Devyr had seen monopoly of land and industry bring misery to the slum dwellers of London, Liverpool, and Glasgow, had agitated for change, had been arrested for sedition, and fled to America. He was invited to address a Fourth of July rally of farmers in Rensselaerville, where he warned his listeners: ‘
If you permit unprincipled and ambitious men to monopolize the soil, they will become masters of the country in the certain order of cause and effect’….”
What do YOU think?
Last Updated on 03/11/2026 by Death of Hypatia Inc.
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