Re: Modern History and the Brzhona, etc.

[Andrew Smith <hobbit@mail.earthlight.co.nz>]

On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Padraic Brown wrote:

> Blimey you NZ types get an early start!  Here in Lollardland, it's still
> Sunday. ;-)
>
The millenium starts here, except where it starts at Tonga or Greenwich! 
> 
> I didn't want to go _too_ far back!  I suppose I could go all the way back
> the beginning of _everything_, but that would be pushing things a bit. 
> You are of course, quite correct in your Pilgrimspiel.  I now don't recall
> my precise words (or if indeed I said it in my last post), but you're
> right on the money in that Great Britain is the cause of the USA, and
> therefore all the rest. 
> 
> I just wanted to make the particular point that the US is sort of pivotal
> in modern history; and that since *here*'s USA can't exist *there*,
> *there*'s modern history must perforce be quite (if not radically)
> different.  I'm not much of an historian, but I think I'm quite capable of
> comming to that conclusion logically; and for Project Interests, I feel
> such things must be dealt with. 
>
Whatever happens in North American History, we need to realise that the
potential for independence has very early groundroots. 
> 
> Only if these wars are identical to *here*'s.  Otherwise, this seems
> perfectly reasonable.
>
The history of early British protestantism *there* is not dissimilar to
the fate of the Huguenots *here* if that's any indication.

- andrew.

Andrew Smith                                  <hobbit@earthlight.co.nz>

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accomplishments; still owes his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil
and the fact that it rains.
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