I stand corrected twice

Not that I am trying to outdo you, but if you are standing corrected once, I am standing corrected twice. I was remembering a word you had used to describe yourself some time ago, and I came up with the word monarchist, but now I realize that the word I was looking for was reactionary. And the other matter is, of course that I thought the National Geographic was British. I guess they always seemed veddy British to me, but that was an incorrect assumption. I didn’t know that Nova Scotia meant new Scotland, but then I haven’t made any proclamations about the place so I am not in error on that matter.

As I recall what I learned in school was that it was socialism when the gov owned some means of production, and communist when the gov owned all means of production, but I don’t recall that we went into much detail over the matter.

I am always thinking of that Simon and Garfunkel line “If I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all,” and I have to wonder what did I learn. Did we have US history in Gage Park? The founding fathers with their wigs and their breeches and writing with feathers bored the shit out of me. One thing is they were always presented as such a noble band, and they were always saying such noble things in that verbose exalted manner of talking they had at the time, and they always seemed to be in agreement.

In actual fact they were fighting each other all the time, which is pretty interesting as I have discovered reading about them later. Here was this very interesting story, these guys just basically making things up on their own, and fighting pretty below the belt on things too. But they still seem so dusty, and things were so different that it’s hard to relate to the current left and right wing.

Take Thomas Jefferson, who both the right and the left wing claim. For my own I think he was a blowhard hypocrite, but he could certainly sling that feather around, so he has good quotes. You know where I stand on the power to stir men’s souls, never a good idea to stir up men’s souls.