yay ~ !

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it's The New World day ~ !

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terrence malick does native america ~ whoohoo!

if i ever got grossly famous, i would beg terrence malick to direct all my movies. malick has had a greater impact on my writing than many authors.

i am counting the minutes before i can leave for bloomington to go watch this film (and have been counting since november when it was originally supposed to be released!)

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ew ~ i dun't want tricky Mick. ptui.

i'm not saying any of those things that you are. of course colonization and war are inevitabilities. that doesn't make them right or okay. and even the best efforts of the missionaries were disruptive and destructive in some (many) cases ~ in others they were not and worked to the good of the people.

but i'm not even picking sides here. i'm just saying it's wrong. simply wrong. i don't think it's unique. i don't think the desire to spread the gospel is evil. i'm saying there was a culture here that wanted to keep their way of life and were bulldozed by the spanish, the french, the english, and anybody else (Christian or not) who believed in the entitlement of Manifest Destiny.

Manifest Destiny is evil. it's the stuff of imperialism. it's the justification of little hitlers and napoleons all over the world. and little constantines too.

God did not create man to make war and enslave one another. it's what we do, but it isn't right and never will be.

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