Re: National Aspect of Buzz Aldrin's Mars Plan
While I sm not noted here as a conservative by any means, I must agree with Boris. While the treatment of the American Indians by the advancing western world certainly is not one to take pride in, neither does it in any way compare to the dictatorships that spacexULA compared it to. In fact the reservations that the Indians were eventually forced onto were for the most part already in lands the Indians themselves had already possessed, and knew how to live on. Unlike the actual Death Camps of such as Adolph Hitler, they were not meant to just kill off all the American Indians. And the same with the Gulags of Joseph Stalin.
In fact, I am now personally glad to see the American Indians getting some degree of revenge by building Casino's on those lands that are not only for the most part tax free (at least as far as the federal government is concerned), but are profitable in taking the "White Man's" money from him! Of course, that is only those white people that are stupid enough to go and gambol anyway! And I am not only too poor to do that , I am not stupid enough to do it either!
However, I am glad to see the American Indian getting something back here. But I have never, and I never will just hang my head in some kind of guilt over what was done here in this country, as it was what has been done throughout history by mankind in general.
It is kind of like those American blacks that want some kind of reparations because their ancestors were slaves. If we were to carry that kind of thinking to its ultimate conclusion then we would all have to attack Italy immediately and take everything that is there to spread around the world. For, in ancient history, if you were not a Roman citizen you were by definition a slave! The greatest slave empire the world has ever witnessed was the Roman Empire. Which was of course centered in Rome in Italy, so of course the Italians owe us all! Which is stupidly ridiculous!
People have been conquering and creating misery for other people, who have been conquered and miserable from the time of Cain and Able in the Bible, over six thousand years ago! So just live with it!
I know this is a far more conservative viewpoint than I am noted for on these boards, but as I have said before on many occasions I am neither a liberal nor a conservative. It depends on the issue at hand. And when it comes to the new views of history, (I think it is called revisionist history) I do not in general go along with it at all!
By the way, long before Western Civilization conquered the Americas from the Native peoples here, those native peoples both murdered and enslaved each other by the millions! Many of those people were indeed intrinsically noble, but many were also some of the most savage people the world has ever seen at the same time. People are unfortunately people, regardless of what popular mythology would have them be!
And I wish Peace and Happiness to ALL people, regardless of History Past!
And if we do not get off of this planet, and become a true space faring civilization, then there WILL BE NO history for future generations to write about anyway, as mankind will have become as extinct as the dinosaurs!! :x