re: #117 The Ghost of a Flea

Never bet against Americans loving some Social Darwinism.

It’s…deep and not just a conservative thing.

I seriously wonders if this is some kind of massive cultural wound that exists because the nation was founded on the idea that the natives didn’t deserve their lives or their lands, and that both Nature and God allowed the settling of the continent.

Funny that Social Darwinism is big among people who reject Evolution.

Ayn Rand explained that we had the right to take the land from the natives because they were not making proper use of it.

And that it was obviously up to us to determine what that “proper use” was

(my ex-wife has a similar attitude about other people’s time and property)