May 30, 2007

Belonging

Tearing down to build up. Constructive destruction is as American as applepie. Look at Iraq. Look at any modern city. Look at any old city suffering because all the city folks want to go out to the new "box stores" to buy stuff. I guess, it's no surprise to me, really. Consider this...most of the colonists came to escape destruction in their home countries. From my own family running away from Scotland renaming themselves McGehees http://www.mcgehee.cc/family/familytree.htm because they supported Rob Roy MacGregor and had their name taken away to Puritans who disliked the lack of religious freedom in England to others who came because they had to leave because of pogroms (aka ethnic cleansings). Don't feel you belong? Come to the U.S. of A... Or at least you'd used to be able to do that.... But don't forget what Groucho Marx said about Belonging and Membership...

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“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”
Groucho Marx quote

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