The American Spirit:
People, politicans like to try and define what the American spirit is for what ever reason. Whether it is to try and move people to action, or to define America, to give clear vision, of what they beleive it is.
It dawned on me while I was at work what the American spirit. So here's my take on it. The American spirit is based on the earliest day's of America. It hearkens back to the pioneering day's of this country. When America was young, the land had yet to be tamed, there was a breed of people who ventured out to new places, and new spaces. It required an indvidual that could make it on their own. This led to a people that had the rugged indivualsim to survive on their own when they had almost no one to depend on. This rugged individualsim survived for deacades after the west had been tamed. It survived until this modern age whare there are few places that require such charateristic.
When people struggled to live off the land they had freedom to do as they want. When you have that freedom to do as you please without the worries and cares of any type of society, it become rather hard to give up that freedom of choice.
What we have today is a country largly civilized, that has all the modern comforts of our time. We do not live off the land like in the pioneering day's. We have retail stores, we have jobs that don't require us to work the land. In a way we have lost our rugged individualism, such a lost has also equaled a gradual loss of our freedom, as we have gradualy civilized and moderized this country we have gradualy lost our freedom.
But there are times when this spirit reemerges again as some disaster strikes the nation. After hurricanes, blizzards, terrorist attacks, etc. We see this unify spirit come out and lift America up and allows us to take pride in our heritage as American's. It also becomes a time when we rediscover our freedom from the bonds of an over bearing government. It's at time's like those that makes American's wish for an age when we felt freer from the intrusiveness of Government.
It dawned on me while I was at work what the American spirit. So here's my take on it. The American spirit is based on the earliest day's of America. It hearkens back to the pioneering day's of this country. When America was young, the land had yet to be tamed, there was a breed of people who ventured out to new places, and new spaces. It required an indvidual that could make it on their own. This led to a people that had the rugged indivualsim to survive on their own when they had almost no one to depend on. This rugged individualsim survived for deacades after the west had been tamed. It survived until this modern age whare there are few places that require such charateristic.
When people struggled to live off the land they had freedom to do as they want. When you have that freedom to do as you please without the worries and cares of any type of society, it become rather hard to give up that freedom of choice.
What we have today is a country largly civilized, that has all the modern comforts of our time. We do not live off the land like in the pioneering day's. We have retail stores, we have jobs that don't require us to work the land. In a way we have lost our rugged individualism, such a lost has also equaled a gradual loss of our freedom, as we have gradualy civilized and moderized this country we have gradualy lost our freedom.
But there are times when this spirit reemerges again as some disaster strikes the nation. After hurricanes, blizzards, terrorist attacks, etc. We see this unify spirit come out and lift America up and allows us to take pride in our heritage as American's. It also becomes a time when we rediscover our freedom from the bonds of an over bearing government. It's at time's like those that makes American's wish for an age when we felt freer from the intrusiveness of Government.
posted by Eric | 7:42 AM
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