Up In The Air, Junior Birdmen
on 12/17/2011 at 04:30 PM
I remember reading about the Wright brothers, and also about Henry Ford, when I was a very small child. Stories of American Exceptionalism and heroism were just about required reading in those days, and common fare for children. Yeah, and in history class that taught us that the USA was the greatest place on earth that ever was.
Granted, they did gloss over the warts, but they showed us the beauty. Now all the kids learn about are the warts, and they haven’t a clue about the rest of it. They think Thanksgiving is no more than an unjust celebration of massacring Native Americans, whereas we knew that it was a festival for overcoming adversity through hard work and the blessings of a beneficent God. And it wasn’t until after the First Thanksgiving that they got around to massacring the Indians anyway [look up the Pequot tribe]. Which we all learned in passing from reading Moby Dick. Stoopid revisionists.