like the Afrikaners in South Africa, the nation.
Speaking
of American Indians, if we use the same rules of nomenclature that the
Sub-Saharan South if we use the same rules that the black people are
using, then people called American Indians would be people who live in
India and whose ancestors came from America. The Indians, the ones
that I'm talking about now, don't live in India but, if they did, then
I suppose that their ancestors would, indeed, have come from this part
of the world, although it wasn't called America back then. I don't
know what name the Indians, the ones that were here before us Amerikaners
arrived, used for the place before we arrived. Maybe instead of American
Indians, we should call them Indian Americans, but that would mean that
they live here and their ancestors came from India, so that won't work,
either. What a mess.
Okay,
I'll admit that I can't figure this out. Maybe it doesn't matter
anyway. It's remotely possible that we might be taking this ancestry
thing a little too seriously. We're evaluating our identity and our
self-worth in terms of our ancestry instead of in terms of ourselves, like
the lizard who claimed a dinosaur for an ancestor. What difference
does it make if somebody's ancestors came from one place or another?
Even as recently as a few hundred years ago, we might all have many of
the same ancestors. If a person traces his ancestry back to the year
1200, not really so very long ago, then the theoretically possible number
of his ancestors is larger than the entire population of the world at that
time. See Genealogical
Overkill, on pages 2 and 3 of the February 2011 issue. So,
not very long ago, we could all have the same ancestors.
We
can't change what our ancestors were or what they did, and we're not responsible
for it anyway. I suggest that, instead of dwelling on them, we should
be doing the best that we can, now, to become good ancestors ourselves.
Consider that our present will be our descendants' past and, just like
we did with our ancestors, our descendants are going to name themselves
after us. We should give them good names to use.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Letter to the Editor
Greetings Sam....
1)
Thank you for continuing so loyally to send me Frontiersman. I have
been regularly receiving them & it's one of the few things I get in
the mail that I read immediately. Even some of my important incoming
letters get buried, even for many weeks, before I can even open them
I'm embarrassed to say.
2)
I don't think I ever wrote you to thank you for publishing one of my letters
to you a few months ago [September
2018, pages 2 - 3]. I always appreciate that & hope my
humble sentiments are worthy to some readers, of taking up very limited
Frontiersman space....
...
I have great faith in you, Sam, & always cringe at your genius going
largely to waste with the tiny audience you reach. I think you should,
& could (can) start your own AM talk radio show. Alex Jones,
Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Matt Drudge, & many others are as PI (politically
incorrect) as you are & they've all managed to get radio &/or TV
shows (except Drudge I'm only assuming so). It could change your
life not only reaching millions of people (as Jones, Komando,
Hannity et al do), w/your rare or unique & vital insights & views,
but could generate the $ you deserve to do so much more w/your life than
you're able to do now. Komando is no doubt a millionaire,
as are some of those others. While that may not be your goal, it
sure wouldn't hurt. So, I encourage you, with immense emphasis
to consider these & look into it.
F.L., a prisoner
Regarding
your idea that my "genius", as you called it, is going to waste, the most
complete reply to that, albeit the most tedious one, is Atlas Shrugged,
by Ayn Rand. If you haven't read the book, then I suggest that you
do so. Here's my short reply, in lieu of the book.
One
day, many years ago, while I was shoveling manure from a goat stall in
rural Idaho, thinking about my bachelor's degree in Nuclear Engineering,
and pondering Atlas Shrugged, I had one of those "moments". In that
moment, I realized that I'd done the same kind of thing that the people
in the story had done, and for the same reasons. My talents and abilities
are not being wasted. Rather, I'm trying to deprive the police
state of any benefit of my talents and abilities. I've refused to
voluntarily do anything that would tend to support the police state, or
to legitimize it. Instead, I'm trying to use my talents and abilities
for my own purposes, and not for the purposes of the police state.
As
for getting my own radio show, I don't think that's a good idea.
Back in the 1990s, I occasionally called in and spoke briefly on Free
and Clear, a libertarian call-in radio talk show that was run by Donald
Cormier. I usually managed to make my points but I believed then
and I still believe now that I'm a writer, not a speaker.
Regarding
your suggested goal of reaching "millions", the Nazarene already did that
and look at the results. For centuries, his so-called followers have
been indistinguishable from all of the other bloodthirsty zealots, all
of them
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