Comments | evemac: you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?

evemac

you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?

Jul 04, 2005 16:01

Listen:

Trout and Hoover were citizens of the United States of America, a country which was called America for short. This was their national anthem, which was pure balderdash, like so much they were expected to take seriously:

O, say can you see by the dawn's early light ( Read more... )

kurt vonnegut, who's our little patriot, sigur rós

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_jems_ July 4 2005, 23:16:34 UTC

Underlining would be < u > and < /u > to close.

The American national anthem is weird. But then again, so is the Swedish one. It doesn't even mention Sweden, only the Nordic region as a whole.

evemac July 4 2005, 23:42:26 UTC

Thanks for the help! I...don't know why I didn't know that. *g*

It doesn't even mention Sweden, only the Nordic region as a whole.

Well, at least your anthem mentions the region! I like the "purple mountain majesties" and "amber waves of grain" in America, the Beautiful, but instead I have questions about a flag in my anthem. Heh.

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evemac July 5 2005, 01:07:19 UTC

Here was another piece of evil nonsense which children were taught: that the sea pirates eventually created a government which became a beacon of freedom to human beings everywhere else. There were pictures and statues of this supposed imaginary beacon for children to see. It was sort of an ice-cream cone on fire.

*hearts Vonnegut*

evergleam83 July 5 2005, 18:00:51 UTC

Oh Kurt Vonnegut, how I love thee.

And just, word. It's so frustrating realizing how much I don't know in regards to world politics and history. I've only spent the last few years trying to catch up after figuring out that I didn't learn anything in twelve years of public school.

hecatehatesthat July 8 2005, 13:09:20 UTC

The Poisonwood Bible. Loooooove. Though my first glimpse at African politics came from reading... er... Congo.

But anyway, yeah. The thing -- one of the many things -- that kills me is that it's not like they didn't teach us there were people already living on this continent, because ohohoho! Colombus thought they were Indians. Colombus insisted to his dying day that's he'd found India, but we won't talk about that because he was a great discoverer and all. (Until someone asked the vikings what they were up to in the 14th century, and they were like, discovering this America-shaped continent. But let's ignore that too. Facts are much less important than tradition, after all.) But they teach you that those Native Americans? Yeah, they don't count. They happened to be here, but Colombus discovered their home all the same ( ... )