#50:
Some English novelists wrote about the colonies (e.g. America, Australia, the West Indies) as lands of opportunity for crooks or "class jumping."
Australia was a penal colony. The UK deported convicts there under the sentence of "transportation" ("Go away").
In Great Expectations, Pip saves Abel Magwitch, an escaped convict. Abel goes on to make a fortune in Australia and quietly returns to the UK to become Pip's secret benefactor. The dark, sinister Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights goes "abroad" and returns to the UK a rich man in order to win over snobby Kathy. The reader is led to believe, but never told, that Heathcliff made his fortune in the immoral transatlantic slave trade.
In Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw), Eliza Doolittle's good-for-nothing father -- an embarrassing garbage collector with a deep Cockney accent-- unwantedly re-appears in her life after inheriting a fortune from an American philanthropist.
The more-open minded people of London, like the actors of the Globe Theater or their audiences, were happy to see the Puritans voluntarily depart for America, taking their illiberal, intolerant Christian ideas with them.
In all of Shakespeare's great works, he only mentions America once (The Comedy of Errors). His rival, Christopher Marlowe, also only mentions America once (Doctor Faustus); America is seen by both as places to earn fortunes. And in those days, that meant ruthless colonial exploitation of natural resources from weaker indigenous people.
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Does anyone care to address the core problem and how it gets fixed? A failure to educate our children in civics.
#47 | Posted by BellRinger
The core problem is the attack against education (and reality) by the right.
Let's start by doing away with rightwing propaganda machines like fox news OANN and the rest so that people can begin to believe facts and not "alternative facts" or made up ---- like Vance and the eating dogs and cats lies "to make a point". Get rid of hucksters and grifters like RFK Jr who are financially incentivized to lie to Americans further eroding trust in reality. Regulate and break up big business like X and Facebook and Amazon that control the information that people receive so that basic reasoning can be restored.
Essentially get rid of the past 50 years of right wing philosophy.
You can also provide Americans with a basic income so that families have better options on raising kids.
You can also stop lying about indoctrinating and grooming teachers and instead treat teachers with respect
Stop actual indoctrination like religious indoctrination which curbs critical thinking.
All a bunch of simple things that are way too difficult for the likes of you.