Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Thought for the day

“Celebrations of the voyage to America by a bunch of religious persecutees, chancers, adventurers and fugitives from justice in 1620. Commemorations being held in multiple UK towns and cities, including Boston (Lincolnshire), Barnstaple, villages in Nottinghamshire and the two English ports that figured most highly in the Mayflower story – Plymouth and Dartmouth.

Just loved this paragraph from the Guardian email this morning.  They were asking what people were predicting for the future, and of course the 400 year anniversary (16th September 2020) of the sailing of the Mayflower from these shores.  Now this is tongue in cheek American readers, but could you not lay the blame for your present president on the follies of these English adventurers, though I know he has a Scottish background, people that sailed away to the New Country?

Our language is still represented in your country, as in Australia, though I am always having arguments with the American dictionary that invades my blog, and demands that I leave the 'u' out or replace an 's' with a 'z'.

The religious 'persecutees' were often referred to as dissenters, not only did we find the Catholic church wanting, but also the Church of England further broke down into a variety of different but similar faiths, as the built heritage of chapels testify.
About half the people on the Mayflower were dissenters, the others left for a better life, the Cope family (of whom I have written a lot) left Avebury and went on to become a wealthy dynasty, they were Quakers.

 Though this prediction may be nearer the truth......

"Vanishing island nations (sea rise); Rebellion of US military against Trump orders; Rivers of blood provoked by anti-minority bigotry; Collapse of South African state/society; Failure of prosperous nations to abate famines with mass starvation (weather, kleptocracy, etc.)"

The question must be asked is the human race gloom-doomers, always predicting terrible things happening, or could we squeeze ourselves from the latest mess.  Slender, young Greta Thunberg, has definitely more eye appeal than the WASP incumbent president of the USA.

And a further thought, if more women were in  powerful places, rather than the middle-aged white haired males that dot the media I read, would we be in safer hands?

What sparked the white haired male must have been Jamie Dibon..

4 comments:

  1. Yes in answer to your last question Thelma. Things couldn't be worse could they?

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  2. Well, we have all seen what men have done with the world. Constant wars and greed over compassion have been our history. What I have seen since the time of trump is that more and more women are running for office and winning. I have hope.

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  3. Well there is Iceland, Katrin Jakobsdottir as prime minister and Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand, both fairly young women.

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