Posted on 01/21/2018 7:27:45 AM PST by DWW1990
One of the least known but most influential characters of early American history is the industrialist Samuel Slater...The Miracle and Magnificence of America, details some of Slater’s industrial exploits. One of [the] significant resources on Slater’s life and work came from author George S. White who, in 1836, published his book, Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures.
... White contrasts life in the United States with that of South America:
A state of society, not founded the principles of honest industry, must be degraded and low; and like the inhabitants of South America must be wretched miserable. Mankind must be usefully and honourably employed, in order to be virtuous and happy. In proof of this position, compare the condition of South America with the United States, and more especially with that part of the United States manufacturing establishments have come into being and risen eminence. The mighty contrast in the condition and character of the people, is altogether greater than that formed by the hand of nature in the two countries themselves…
...Indolence and enfeeble the hands and put out the eyes of the inhabitants. Roaming in poverty, filth, and pollution, they are totally blind to their advantages and privileges...Trained to view labour as a degradation, while trampling the most prolific fields and possessing everything requisite, and of the first qualities, for food and clothing, they would be obliged to go naked and starve, were it not for the industry of other nations. As it now is, robbers and assassins fill their streets...
Sounds like much of South America today! Or, if you prefer, and as President Trump allegedly put it, a “shi*hole” (or “shi*house”).
(Excerpt) Read more at trevorgrantthomas.com ...
Sounds like Detroit, or any other democratically controlled shithole, as well.
Happy not to work, and happy to vote for Democrats who keep them in this condition.
And, tragically, several other places in America.
I have a good code word for this so nobody has to resort to asterisks or underscores.
Krappehollestan.
Please. If you like it, take it.
(I’ll be here all week. Try the shrimp!)
***Trained to view labour as a degradation***
Reminds me of the movie THE MISFITS in which the cowboys are talking about the “shame” of working for wages.
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