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I mean, confederacies are older than monarchies in human history. Even in N. America there was the Iroquois Confederacy right there. Not to take away from the r
by pishpash 4y ago
I mean, confederacies are older than monarchies in human history. Even in N. America there was the Iroquois Confederacy right there. Not to take away from the rebellion and the formalization of political philosophy, but this is typical puffery by the ascendent Anglo-Saxons who were looking for a superiority narrative to serve the need of colonial nation-building and subsequently world domination.
- yucky 4y ago>this is typical puffery by the ascendent Anglo-Saxons who were looking for a superiority narrative By what metric was there not superiority?
- pishpash 4y agoAt the time? The Revolution-era US was none of the things that the linked article quotes as examples of exceptional greatness. It was a relative backwater, facing internal and external security threats and struggling to get a national government working.
- yucky 4y agoEven then you had superiority over the native population in every metric (economic, health, education etc) unless I'm missing something.