[lit-ideas] Re: Inferring the Poodle Card
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:30:23 -0400
On 10/28/2010 5:01 AM, cblists@xxxxxxxx wrote:
The UK as world-soul - with perhaps the US as just
one of its many manifestations / incarnations -
would be a metaphor as dear to United Empire
Loyalists as it would be abhorent to (among
others) both 'original' Tea Partiers and their (to
us) contemporary name-sakes.
In part, the original Tea Party began as a
reaction to a reduction of tea prices that made
smuggling tea less profitable for Yanks.
As for UK as world soul, the US foreign policy of
the entire 19th century was shaped by avoiding
conflict with the UK, playing them off against the
French, stopping Spain (and later the Germans)
from expanding their colonial influence in the
hemisphere.
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine,
for example, was proclaimed to prevent European
nations from invading Mexico (or other nations) to
collect on defaulted debts. Essentially the US had
to say, "Keep out! We'll collect your debt for
you," rather than let "the world soul" get a grip
on parts of the hemisphere. Because we stopped the
world soul and other Euro powers from setting up
shop in this hemisphere, we started to get the
"imperialist" label.
That said, yes, England, land of hope and glory!
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