RE: Georgia - As Fucked Up As Texas
July 8, 2013 at 11:21 am
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2013 at 11:22 am by Creed of Heresy.)
The interesting thing is what the Civil War is not what the Civil War is COMMONLY KNOWN for, but rather, what it ISN'T known for. Yet, its results, not its causes, are what matter the most. The end result of the Civil War was slavery ended and the Union remained whole...and as for WHY it happened?
History is written by the victor.
History is filled with liars.
Still...the causes of the Civil War are largely academic. Even if you boil it down to just "south wanted to be its own nation, north didn't want the nation to split," the South decided it wanted to start a war for its independence, and it lost. The loser of a war tends to be treated very poorly, especially when the loser happens to be the aggressor. Nothing creates more lasting hostility than a schism in a society or culture, and even if the war results in the status quo being upheld, it doesn't mean the flames are ever really put out. Look at the current situation. Over a century has passed and people in the south STILL wail about the confederacy. Most of them don't even know what the fuck the confederacy stands for or what they would do if their state suddenly lost all political and economic connection to the rest of the union but they still wave the flag around like a bunch of dumbasses because they just wanna keep up the idea, no matter how little meaning the idea has anymore.
It's the 21st century. The south needs to get the fuck over it already. Everything that happened over a hundred years ago stopped being something that can be a justified grievance about two decades after the event and its immediate aftermath happened. After a while, you gotta realize when you're just saluting a flag soaked in the blood of someone you can't even remember for the sake of saluting a flag. And all these states that keep shrieking about secession; get the fuck over yourselves. No state in the union is economically strong enough to last on its own, we aren't self-sustaining micro-nations, we're parts of a sum that is greater than the overall individual parts themselves.
History is written by the victor.
History is filled with liars.
Still...the causes of the Civil War are largely academic. Even if you boil it down to just "south wanted to be its own nation, north didn't want the nation to split," the South decided it wanted to start a war for its independence, and it lost. The loser of a war tends to be treated very poorly, especially when the loser happens to be the aggressor. Nothing creates more lasting hostility than a schism in a society or culture, and even if the war results in the status quo being upheld, it doesn't mean the flames are ever really put out. Look at the current situation. Over a century has passed and people in the south STILL wail about the confederacy. Most of them don't even know what the fuck the confederacy stands for or what they would do if their state suddenly lost all political and economic connection to the rest of the union but they still wave the flag around like a bunch of dumbasses because they just wanna keep up the idea, no matter how little meaning the idea has anymore.
It's the 21st century. The south needs to get the fuck over it already. Everything that happened over a hundred years ago stopped being something that can be a justified grievance about two decades after the event and its immediate aftermath happened. After a while, you gotta realize when you're just saluting a flag soaked in the blood of someone you can't even remember for the sake of saluting a flag. And all these states that keep shrieking about secession; get the fuck over yourselves. No state in the union is economically strong enough to last on its own, we aren't self-sustaining micro-nations, we're parts of a sum that is greater than the overall individual parts themselves.
