Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ltlee1@hotmail.com (ltlee1) Newsgroups: soc.culture.china Subject: American Dynamism Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:04:27 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1858426"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="pxsmGrN7Y7mF0hfJcY//7F6kiWqDRq/tZN4FOOcim3s"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$xbgU8pOMVI7DsMPwoPiJPupixAjfyercrEXru13ZiDgYYQJY2R2Xy X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Posting-User: 0099cdd7dc5bd7b25c488bf8bcfab81a117b2ffc Bytes: 2169 Lines: 23 "History reminds us: America is and always has been a freak show. We should accept this in ourselves more, that it is in our nature as a people. When the floodwaters receded and camp towns sprang up, the region’s prostitutes came in, followed by the ladies of the Christian Temperance Union. We are cantankerous. When strangers who had survived overnight in an attic saw that a stone church next door had broken the wall of water, someone said, “The Methodist church saved us.” Within seconds a voice shot out: “Only the Catholic Church can save!” We did something nobody ever tried before, to fill a continent with people from every country in the world, and ask them to come, build something, get along, and invent an arrangement of rules and rights by which they could operate together. It produced a dazzling, strange and gifted nation, a freak show, and a fabulous one. To read our history is to say, “We got through that.” We’ve got through a lot. Whatever’s coming, immediately and further out, we’ll likely get through that, too." https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-a-deadly-flood-revealed-about-america-history-natural-disasters-16905344 Unfortunately, no one could objectively nail down the "likely". And realistically speaking, the US will never be as target rich as before.