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Commercialism is what the Western world seems to be about.
I have been reading The Journals of Lewis and Clark, (ed. Bernard Devoto, 1953) and it was the primary driving force: to open trade routes, to gather up resources for use and sale. Same with the Spanish explorations of the New World: gold was what drove them, and what they were pleased to call 'conversion to the Faith' was the excuse. Same with Admiral Perry's prying open of Japan: markets and goods were, by Western standards, our right to claim and exploit.
Can we think any other way, than to home in on any and all source of potential profit?
posted by
Ciel
on May 16, 2012 at 10:43 AM
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Good to know! If only the concept had been kept around with the holiday! It is good to have a day honoring mothers, but a day where the women of the world got together in a nuetral forum and demanded an end to war, ow that could be a powerful thing.
posted by
calia14
on May 14, 2012 at 10:16 PM
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Katray2
It’s a part of spring with flowers. I would have bought the Whitman’s sampler for mine love. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on May 13, 2012 at 5:27 AM
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So sad really Ray one small voice of sanity is never really understood
posted by
C_C_T
on May 13, 2012 at 12:21 AM
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I did not know that is how the holiday began...Here's to hoping that wars end.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on May 12, 2012 at 9:00 PM
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Hmnnn the anti War concept and the anti commercial concept, neither seem to
have worked. Sigh! Ah we humans sometimes I know that we are hopeless.
posted by
Kabu
on May 12, 2012 at 3:38 PM
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