tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403384531250069062.post6881886032090340843..comments2023-09-06T02:20:33.459-07:00Comments on Women On...: Shed a Tear for WisconsinLisa :-]http://www.blogger.com/profile/02237889098638895390noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403384531250069062.post-39991409574156319442011-05-01T18:33:09.425-07:002011-05-01T18:33:09.425-07:00I never did finish that four parter on American fo...I never did finish that four parter on American folkways and their ties to our beliefs about freedom. Mostly because when I got to number four it was too depressing to continue. These were the borderers. They came out of the border country of England and Scotland, scared the crap out of the orderly settlers of Pennsylvania and squirearchy Virginia and the Tidewater. They were encouraged to settle in the back country of the colonies. They took with them what came to be known as natural liberty. I’m not going to go into the details, but at it’s most basic it boils down to “I’m free to do what I want and you don’t have the freedom to interfere or even criticize.” It doesn’t really seem to allow a respect for others to be free to do what they want if it interferes with what I believe to be right. Prime examples are Patrick Henry and Andrew Jackson. <br /><br />I got depressed when I realized how prevalent this philosophy has become. Crowding out the other philosophies that the colonists brought with them. Patrick Henry may have been admired but for some reason he didn’t end up in the Continental congress. And I think that when it came time to choose men to consider the remaking of the Articles of Confederation representatives of the borderer view of freedom seem to have been very thin on the ground. I’d love to know what part of the country the families of some of the most rabid “my way or the highway” reps came from. I know I was raised with a combo of New England’s the freedom of the group is primary and Pennsylvania’s “if you respect my rights I’ll respect yours as long as nobody gets hurt.” You don’t see this with the “my way or the highway” crowd.JACKIEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11883028058826030899noreply@blogger.com