The Wasp Question by Andrew Fraser

Author:Andrew Fraser [Fraser, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Philosophy, Political, iron_pill_short
ISBN: 9781907166297
Google: 0-8sqrH__7gC
Amazon: 1907166297
Publisher: Arktos
Published: 2011-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

The origins of the distinctive regional cultures of British America “were highly complex, involving differences of British region, religion, rank, and generation, as well as of the American environment, and the process of migration.”[103] Patterns of settlement reproduced in America the cultural and political divisions that had existed previously in England. Once across the Atlantic, British colonists settled in the areas most like the part of England which they had left, among other people sharing the same regional culture. Those transplanted regional cultures often generated substantial friction when they rubbed up against each other; it was never a foregone conclusion that they would work together to build a new nation. On the other hand, despite their differences, all colonial Englishmen shared a common language, political unity, and Protestant religion. They were bound together also by the expanding commercial “empire of goods” that provided a solid material foundation for English settlements in the New World.[104] Although each regional culture developed distinctive patterns of child-rearing and character development, they were alike in producing numerous individuals capable of seizing the opportunities offered by the emergent system of political economy driving colonial development.

Individuals and groups alike were locked in a competitive struggle to conquer the American continent. The colonial system of political economy manifested, with a vengeance, the ontology of power and conflict. “The fear of the forest led to a virtual apotheosis of the farmer who would destroy the enemy and give birth to the garden.” A mythos emerged in which the American farmer became “the hero who was peculiarly blessed in his land;” the farmer was to be “the savior of the nation that was to be savior of the world.” But he was no prince of peace. Madison Grant, never one to denigrate the achievements of the Nordic race, saw the local communities of New Englanders and Virginians who leapfrogged across the continent as a marauding army: “Probably no more destructive human being has ever appeared on the world stage than the American pioneer with his axe and his rifle.”[105]

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