MDMD Dixon's nonviolence

[Terrance]

s~Z wrote:
> 
> >>>What is it about America that can thus dull sensibilities in
> this regard?<<<
> 
> For most, the comfort of living here makes ignoring things worth
> it.

And we have so many wonderful and fantastic fictions. That helps. Of
course, wonderful and fantastikal fictions are found everywhere. Maybe
if we had only one version? No, that wouldn't work. Hmmmm, Dixon
suspects that it was in the Wilderness when the people came to American.
Mason thinks it has more to do with the river of hell, the Lethe the
people drink. Dixon and Mason know all about American Slavery before
they get to America because most of what they learn about America they
learn from their friends who have moved there. But why do Dixon and
Mason forget about their own bloody history and slavery at home when
they travel? Mason's memory is particularly bad in this regard. 
Oh, but do the English have slaves? Oh, but did the English Massacre
indigenous populations and take their land? Oh yes,  they did. Dixon
wears that red coat in England too. Men are violent by Nature he says,
himself included.