NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND -- PART NINE

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The West’s fascination with NOWHERE MAN or Utopian ideas has been as addictive as breathing is to life.  There is a certain insanity to this as it entertains faulty perceptions, inappropriate actions and delusions of superiority. 

We saw this in 1095 when Europe launched the “Holy Crusades” to convert the Islam infidels of Persia to Christian beliefs, as NOWHERE MAN of the Christian West knew best, only to be soundly defeated at Tripoli by the Muslims in 1291, ending that misadventure. 

The West turned its attention to the New World in the 16^th century sending missionaries and soldiers to that unspoiled Paradise to convert the natives to the Christian faith, and in the process, destroying New World civilizations.

The implicit belief of the NOWHERE MAN invaders of the West was that it had a superior civilization and religion with a divine duty to convert this New World Paradise into the NOWHERE LAND of the West.  The corollary was that the few were ordained to rule and the rest were meant to follow wherever NOWHERE MAN might find himself.

A disruption in this Utopian continuity is personified in Andrew Jackson’s U.S. Presidency (1829 – 1837) where he took on the NOWHERE MAN of his time in industry and banking and drove him back into NOWHERE LAND.   He changed the American calculus of leadership, which now in the 21^st century has slipped back into NOWHERE MAN and NOWHERE LAND.   

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NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND -- PART TEN

"LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO THE WESTERN NIGHT!"