http://benjaminwhitmer.com/index.php/2009/11/the-metaphysics-of-indian-hating/ Benjamin Whitmer Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:20:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://benjaminwhitmer.com/index.php/2009/11/the-metaphysics-of-indian-hating/comment-page-1/#comment-8881 chicago moving company Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:23:24 +0000 http://benjaminwhitmer.com/?p=1224#comment-8881 Paul has shown incredible passion while expressing views. Thanks for the great information, I have it bookmarked Paul has shown incredible passion while expressing views. Thanks for the great information, I have it bookmarked

]]> http://benjaminwhitmer.com/index.php/2009/11/the-metaphysics-of-indian-hating/comment-page-1/#comment-7486 Kick Him, Honey » Blog Archive » Happy anniversary, judge Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:01:34 +0000 http://benjaminwhitmer.com/?p=1224#comment-7486 [...] It’s been one of my guideposts since I first discovered it, about twenty years ago. Almost exactly a year ago, I had some great plan to post excerpts from the hundreds of pages of notes I took while creating a [...] [...] It’s been one of my guideposts since I first discovered it, about twenty years ago. Almost exactly a year ago, I had some great plan to post excerpts from the hundreds of pages of notes I took while creating a [...]

]]> http://benjaminwhitmer.com/index.php/2009/11/the-metaphysics-of-indian-hating/comment-page-1/#comment-4314 Kick Him, Honey » Blog Archive » Daniel Boone Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:16:56 +0000 http://benjaminwhitmer.com/?p=1224#comment-4314 [...] it’s core, it’s not very complicated. It begins with a quote from Richard Slotkin that I’m rather fond of: In American mythogenesis the founding fathers were not those eighteenth-century gentlemen who [...] [...] it’s core, it’s not very complicated. It begins with a quote from Richard Slotkin that I’m rather fond of: In American mythogenesis the founding fathers were not those eighteenth-century gentlemen who [...]

]]> http://benjaminwhitmer.com/index.php/2009/11/the-metaphysics-of-indian-hating/comment-page-1/#comment-2596 Kick Him, Honey » Blog Archive » John Smith, Pocahontas, and Cormac McCarthy Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:48:15 +0000 http://benjaminwhitmer.com/?p=1224#comment-2596 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> http://benjaminwhitmer.com/index.php/2009/11/the-metaphysics-of-indian-hating/comment-page-1/#comment-1883 Ben Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:06:05 +0000 http://benjaminwhitmer.com/?p=1224#comment-1883 And I watched the reenactment Dorne, but I'm kinda iffy on it. That trinkets shit gets on my nerves. And I watched the reenactment Dorne, but I’m kinda iffy on it. That trinkets shit gets on my nerves.

]]> http://benjaminwhitmer.com/index.php/2009/11/the-metaphysics-of-indian-hating/comment-page-1/#comment-1882 Ben Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:04:24 +0000 http://benjaminwhitmer.com/?p=1224#comment-1882 I like that, trm49. It takes care of the ending, too, with the conversation between Bell and his Ranger uncle, which I was unhappily reading as some kind of "Searchers" the-land-and-the-Indians-have-been-hard-on-us horseshit. I like that, trm49. It takes care of the ending, too, with the conversation between Bell and his Ranger uncle, which I was unhappily reading as some kind of “Searchers” the-land-and-the-Indians-have-been-hard-on-us horseshit.

]]> http://benjaminwhitmer.com/index.php/2009/11/the-metaphysics-of-indian-hating/comment-page-1/#comment-1881 trm49 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:43:37 +0000 http://benjaminwhitmer.com/?p=1224#comment-1881 I watched 'no country for old men' through the same lens, with the assassin as the ancient enemy of manifest destiny. I've never seen anything that states this was the message of that book or the movie but that is how I perceived it. That is, the various manifestations of 'american can do' spirit running up against a foe it does not understand and never can seem to completely vanquish, from the comanches who offed the Texas Ranger to the assassin who follows a value system that is odds with what the rest of the texans understand. I watched ‘no country for old men’ through the same lens, with the assassin as the ancient enemy of manifest destiny. I’ve never seen anything that states this was the message of that book or the movie but that is how I perceived it. That is, the various manifestations of ‘american can do’ spirit running up against a foe it does not understand and never can seem to completely vanquish, from the comanches who offed the Texas Ranger to the assassin who follows a value system that is odds with what the rest of the texans understand.

]]> http://benjaminwhitmer.com/index.php/2009/11/the-metaphysics-of-indian-hating/comment-page-1/#comment-1860 Dorle Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:27:39 +0000 http://benjaminwhitmer.com/?p=1224#comment-1860 Making change at the first grade level: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/20/kids-reenact-the-first-th_n_365432.html Making change at the first grade level: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/20/kids-reenact-the-first-th_n_365432.html

]]> http://benjaminwhitmer.com/index.php/2009/11/the-metaphysics-of-indian-hating/comment-page-1/#comment-1813 Kick Him, Honey » Blog Archive » Blood Meridian discussion Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:48:03 +0000 http://benjaminwhitmer.com/?p=1224#comment-1813 [...] Update: For more on this, start here. [...] [...] Update: For more on this, start here. [...]

]]> http://benjaminwhitmer.com/index.php/2009/11/the-metaphysics-of-indian-hating/comment-page-1/#comment-1812 Kick Him, Honey » Blog Archive » Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:47:17 +0000 http://benjaminwhitmer.com/?p=1224#comment-1812 [...] Update II: For more on this, start here. [...] [...] Update II: For more on this, start here. [...]

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