traptunderice wroteemperorblackdoom wrotetraptunderice wroteLove the transhistorical aspect to this art. When I first heard about this album, my immediate connotation was a criticism of Obama as being Bush with a human face yet there's such a larger scope to it, where they are pointing out how America has been founded on murder, lies and deceit. Yet the founding myth must always be buried or rationalized.
It has been figured that colonists paid 1/50 the taxes that mainland British Islanders paid at the time that the Rev War broke out. Talk about an ungrateful child.
I've always heard that fact but never an exact amount. People in America are perfectly fine with that revolution over such a marginal tax hike yet to have someone's culture and local economy completely annihilated by foreign powers is no reason to get angry.As a student of history, would you say the Rev War was more of a bottom-up or top-down movement? I've always seen it as top-down and the size of that tax increase makes me figure that the wealthiest would be more upset rather than the lowest classes who would simply bear the burden, as in it hadn't reached a debilitating point yet which would lead the poor to take up arms.
American revolution isn't my speciality by a long shot, but yes, I think you basically have it exact. The definition of a top-down movement. The standard narrative has always said that the American elite revolted because of the threat of ever increasing taxes, but really, the English had to pay for the French and Indian war somehow, didn't they?
I'm quite glad we don't have a monarch and all, even a figurehead; but, if America traveled a more Canadian path (maybe severing official commonwealth ties between the world wars when American power grows to the point where it can't appear subservient to Britain) I don't see how American interests would have been much worse for wear. I suppose metropole and colony would have clashed severely over manifest destiny principles though.
And better than Oracles? Wow, big words!
