Hello All: Subversive person here. Although a proud American, I do think I'm clear-minded and cynical enough to make the following statements. Any study of human nature should reveal that those who rebelled against Britain did so MOSTLY through a sense of greed. Please! All those hardy, independent (hard headed, antisocial...just kidding) outlanders from whom I am descended took one good look west and said, "The heck if I'm sharing that with anybody else!" And I'm not saying that was a bad thing, and in fact is pretty natural. Why should we have shared the riches of this continent with anybody else, even if another government had risked capital, manpower-in effect been the entrepeneurs who started the venture? As the previous writer said, after several generations of first-hand working the land, it would be difficult NOT to be independent minded. (Or pig-headed as my father used to say of me.) All of this "Liberty" talk largely meant liberty to move west, work hard, get richer, and not answer to anyone. I'm just being pragmatic. I think a majority of the high minded talk came later when we started trying to justify ourselves. Cheers! Holley

Couldn't that be regarded as the Protestant Ethic. Doing work for work's sake, to reap the profits? That's normal, healthy and capitalistic. Rhonda Houston -----Original Message----- From: holley calmes [mailto:hcalmes@mindspring.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 7:16 PM To: AMERICAN-REVOLUTION-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [A-REV] One litle voice Hello All: Subversive person here. Although a proud American, I do think I'm clear-minded and cynical enough to make the following statements. Any study of human nature should reveal that those who rebelled against Britain did so MOSTLY through a sense of greed. Please! All those hardy, independent (hard headed, antisocial...just kidding) outlanders from whom I am descended took one good look west and said, "The heck if I'm sharing that with anybody else!" And I'm not saying that was a bad thing, and in fact is pretty natural. Why should we have shared the riches of this continent with anybody else, even if another government had risked capital, manpower-in effect been the entrepeneurs who started the venture? As the previous writer said, after several generations of first-hand working the land, it would be difficult NOT to be independent minded. (Or pig-headed as my father used to say of me.) All of this "Liberty" talk largely meant liberty to move west, work hard, get richer, and not answer to anyone. I'm just being pragmatic. I think a majority of the high minded talk came later when we started trying to justify ourselves. Cheers! Holley ==== AMERICAN-REVOLUTION Mailing List ==== ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237