232 years ago today a group of angry colonials sat down and signed the declaration of independence.
You can read the history any way you want:
A usurpation of power.
The culmination of a mighty progress.
Whatever.
It changed history, and has been shaping it ever since.
I don’t think Independence Day should be remembered as the date a nation was founded. I think it marks a point in time when humanity grew up.
I’d guess that most people in the UK haven’t read the declaration.
I read it today, as I hadn’t before. It’s actually quite short…
… and in all honesty I was a little disappointed.
Most of it is a big list of complaints against George III (all of which seem fair enough to me, but I wasn’t there so can’t really comment). All rather dull.
The best bit is the second paragraph which is where you get the ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ – which is genius.
Today I’m leaving my job to spend a year pursuing happiness - looking after my baby daughter, who is lovely.
In the meantime I’ll be trying to keep the blog going, finish my book, train for the Olympics in 2012 and write a Eurovision entry. So do feel free to keep stopping by – as, nappies allowing, there should still be some vaguely interesting stuff here.
You can read the history any way you want:
A usurpation of power.
The culmination of a mighty progress.
Whatever.
It changed history, and has been shaping it ever since.
I don’t think Independence Day should be remembered as the date a nation was founded. I think it marks a point in time when humanity grew up.
I’d guess that most people in the UK haven’t read the declaration.
I read it today, as I hadn’t before. It’s actually quite short…
… and in all honesty I was a little disappointed.
Most of it is a big list of complaints against George III (all of which seem fair enough to me, but I wasn’t there so can’t really comment). All rather dull.
The best bit is the second paragraph which is where you get the ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ – which is genius.
Today I’m leaving my job to spend a year pursuing happiness - looking after my baby daughter, who is lovely.
In the meantime I’ll be trying to keep the blog going, finish my book, train for the Olympics in 2012 and write a Eurovision entry. So do feel free to keep stopping by – as, nappies allowing, there should still be some vaguely interesting stuff here.
1 comment:
Thought this was going to be about that classic Sci-Fi epic starring Jeff Goldblum. But, alas it was not. Ho hum.
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