C of L49...American responsibility or gutlessness?

[David Payne]

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:16:37 -0700, markekohut at yahoo.com wrote:

> Pure overarching vision speculation: TRP idealizes the America of Jefferson and just-post?.......Around the time of Mason & Dixon.....yeoman-farmers, small community businesses, craftsmen, etc.....when the society supported individuality and ingenuity (and helping others via barn-raising, etc. was a natural part of the community). Before the "Little Rebellion Between the States".....before the Industrial "revolution" and what it did to workers.....Agree? Not?

I'm not so sure about that. In M&D, as I recall, there's a lot of negativity towards the States at that time, including anti-slavery sentiments & gothic horrors surrounding the slaughtering of Native Americans & doubts cast on the purity of the revolutionary sentiments of Washington, et al, who are cast as motivated in part by the King's refusal to allow/recognize landholdings west of the Appalachian Mountains.
 
On the other hand, I recall a playful glee in M&D about Franklin & Washington. 
 
My point being, I guess, is that I don't remember M&D as idealizing the States at the time ... although I recall feeling like it was presented as a fork in the road, almost a mourning of What Could Have Been, a idealization of an unrealized future.
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