[lit-ideas] Re: Giving Thanksgiving
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:08:46 -0800 (PST)
How does having been defeated and killed in battle make him not "noble" ?
(Assuming that this was implied.)
Omar Kusturica
--- On Mon, 11/29/10, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Giving Thanksgiving
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, November 29, 2010, 8:31 AM
>>Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief
Noble savage, yadda-yadda, noble savage.
He was shot by Americans -- more influenced by Locke and Scottish realism than
by Rousseau -- while he was fighting on the British side at the Battle of
Thames.
He tried to kill the Americans. Instead they killed him. Noble savage,
yadda-yadda, noble savage.
>>wholeness, respect and harmony
I'm going to really go out on a limb here and assert that "wholeness, respect
and harmony" is a good thing. To really speculate, I'll assert that many people
think it is a good thing.
>>"together we will win our country back from the whites"
He was wrong. They didn't. He's with the Etruscans and the Carthaginians and
the Druids -- all objects of romantic imaginings. All extinct as warring
nations. Noble savage, yadda-yadda, noble savage.
Nations rise and fall, but Tecumseh will remain deader than a boiled mackerel.
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