Settling America: The Virginia Cavaliers

[@rupertaugust2403]

Excellent video on some of the underappreciated connective tissue between the new world and the old.

[@John-Brown]

I just watched your interview on The Jolly Heretic. You're a fascinating thinker! Thanks for all your hard work!

[@donnawalser7304]

Me too was great!

[@JustineBrownsBookshelf]

Thank you very much! Dr Dutton keeps a brilliant pub and I was glad to pay a visit.

[@bubbag8895]

I can find that on bitchute?

[@JustineBrownsBookshelf]

@@bubbag8895 Yes it’s up there

[@stmartin17773]

Love Justine's videos.

[@JustineBrownsBookshelf]

We aim to please!

[@js_guyman]

Well done, thanks. You have a good voice for it, and the background music is tasteful

[@ElGancha]

the etiquette and way of the life of the Virginia cavaliers is very interesting!

[@skadiwarrior2053]

Interesting but, finished way too soon. Is there a possibility of a second episode?

[@JustineBrownsBookshelf]

Yes, it’s going to be a series on the different colonies.

[@skadiwarrior2053]

@@JustineBrownsBookshelf Excellent thank you.

[@joeydaly5581]

that was extremely interesting, thanks Justine

[@JustineBrownsBookshelf]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mackenshaw8169]

James I was right.

[@JustineBrownsBookshelf]

On ciggies? Yeah...

[@Jacob-pu4zj]

Greatest King Britain ever had.

[@a44489]

Wat happened

[@christophmahler]

This is a second trial after my first comment from June 2021 was removed by GOOGLE via it's algorithm run, _automated_ 'community guideline' system... These were the points of the essay that were noteworthy to me, back then: 1. There's a biased silence in Western historiography about *cavalier ethos as the roots of **_political culture_** of the Old South* . Puritan colonization of *'New England' - originally 'Northern Virgina' - the geographic seat of contemporary, **_anglophile_** US Transatlanticism* - is widely prefered in US historiography as the 'model of modernization' over the stories of settlement of a backwards 'New Virginia', reflecting a 'Yankee', Northern identity of 'progress', even after the revisionism of the reconstruction era, led by 'global headmaster' Woodrow Wilson - who ceded German colonies in China on May Fourth 1917 to 'democratic' WW I ally imperial Japan, because of his principled advocacy of 'self-determination of peoples'... It is obvious that the 'folklore' of David Hackett Fischer's 'Albion's Seed' does not 'compute' with a paradigm of an 'universal behaviouralism' (Skinner) or *the 'political psychology' (e.g. Fromm) that idealizes the liberal voter in a **_normative 'orthodoxy'_* , attributes of a 'Radical Enlightenment' - hence *the still prevalent narrative of the American colonies foremost as a rational enterprise of modern stock companies* ('The Growth of the American Republic' 1930 - 'The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment'' 1977) www.nytimes.com/1969/11/04/archives/growth-of-morison-and-commager.html www.nytimes.com/1998/03/03/arts/henry-steele-commager-history-scholar-defender-constitution-dead-95.html 2. *Colonists in the South were originally **_subsistence farmers_** - not 'slavers'* as they are deliberately - and exclusively - _demonized_ after the American Civil War. The original economy in the South was founded upon the persecution and dispossession of royalist families by *the **_tyranny_** of Oliver Cromwell and his 'Commonwealth'* - later fueled further by *the Enclosures of Highland settlements* , sending Iro-Scots into exile abroad as an 'indentured' labor force when the _mercantilist_ monoculture of Ottoman 'cash-crops' - e.g. sugar cane versus the medieval honey - has been spread from the 'West Indies and the Bermudas to Virginia and the Carolinas, *'modernizing' the cavalier South into the typical American corporate dystopia* , recognizable not only within the tobacco industry, the staging point of *Edward Bernays propaganda campaign for **_'feminist'_** 'liberty torches'* , an offspring, the bourgeois revolution would later devour - but also within 'Walmart' and 'Amazon', Western 'Special Economic Zones', Taylorized for sole share-holder value and stripped of customary labor 'rights'. It was the _'enlightened'_ Whigs of financial London who controlled and advocated *the trade with **_addictive_** , **_luxury_** items without nutritional value* like tobacco, sugar - later Indian _opium_ - and increasingly in _slaves_ - who were deemed fit for the crushing manual labor in tropical conditions since the 1670s in a practice mostly unknown during original Stuart rule when landed aristocracy still engaged in subsistence farming, and which was opposed, first during the compromising Restoration by Charles the II - by Quakers on grounds of Christian compassion (e.g. Benjamin Lay) - not due to enlightened reason as a century later... (two centuries of 'progress' from Creole culture of Euroafrican intermarriage to Western, rational chattel slavery) ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/africanpassageslowcountryadapt/introductionatlanticworld/the_rise_of_african_slavery www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/triangular-trade (well obscured behind a pay wall, shifting blame to the English Crown and foreign princes - because slavery can't possibly have been an interest of _merchants_ who would later enage in a coup against kings like James the II. while expanding their trade ever more ruthlessly) www.britannica.com/topic/Royal-African-Company That the 18the century Whigs would later adopt advocacy of abolitionism was arguably along the same stratagem pattern as with their stance on trade tariffs - demanding 'open door' policies only wherever their own industry had grown under protectionism and was to outbid less developed competitors, abroad - undermining e.g. the domestic textile industry of the princely states of Mughal India - agitating for abstract liberties for Westeners in 'charters' and 'licenses' while dissolving traditional, vital interests of local populations - the familiar pattern from the secularization of monastic lands to the enclosure of the Commons and Highlands ('The Tragedy of the Commons' as a neo-liberal talking point, advocating privatization of public utilities as a vector of plain exploitation). There is probably something to be said about *an actual 're-feudalization' of Yankee 'robber barons' in 'manors' as a widespread vice in biographies of Wallstreet and Silicon Valley* , indulging in a grotesque distortion of political myths (described e.g. by William Taylor's 'Cavalier and Yankee' 1961) - but with none of the patriarchial, fatherly tending to the needs of 'bondsmen' - as with _actual gentlemen_ whose nobility sprung from military service - from the very front line that is... 3. It is probably going to be ignored by a Political Right that is lured into a fallacy of 'Whiteness' - e.g. as a mere imitation of 'black nationalism' - but I argue that a man like Martin Luther King Junior is unimaginable to stem from New York with it's ghettoization of ethnic identity or from a family of 'Boston Brahmins' - only the South could produce a leader as _inspiring_ and _conciliatory_ across racial and economic groups - arguably a Baptist iteration of *'Jacksonian Democracy' , uniting plural popular causes* - a nobility, proven to be absent from US politics ever since his suspected assassination by _federal agencies_ . It is men like him who prove in complete contradiction to a narrative of a secular utopia that _sacred_ monarchy - with an open mind for the legitimate, popular concerns of the 'estates' - has a foundation with deep roots in the New World - another popular example would be 'Emperor Norton' - while parliamentarism has _always_ been regarded as a form of foreign occupation, 'taxing without representing' local interests - a place of urban corruption to depart from from like *the Exodus of Abraham from the cities of Chaldea into an ever deeper **_'frontier'_* , haunted by *the specters of an 'avaracious', **_imperial_** Rome* - the eternal, 'beastly' antagonist to the humble, righteous and faithful 'kingdom of god' (the US constitution having been modeled after the _composite_ , but de facto _oligarchic_ Roman Republic). It may be that the future of the US is not going to be a futurist 'manifest destiny' of _'a waggon trek in space' - but was foreshaddowed in the Croatoan refuge into native primitivism when faced with the collapse of 'civilized' communications - a pattern, repeated e.g. in the considerable intermarriage between Iro-Scots, runaway slaves and native American Cherokee... www.britannica.com/biography/John-Ross-chief-of-Cherokee-Nation Currently the US has lost _all_ it's 'underdog' credibility it used to have during the hegemony of the British Empire and the first decades of the Cold War and is severely distrusted not only be emerging near peer, regional competitors - but allies since 1917 - resulting in up to 20.000 warheads reprogrammed again for impact in US urban centers along the coasts - with international affairs jittering along a diffuse political culture of the presidency... 21st century, 'enlightened', federal America in the eyes of a Souther 'gentlemen': "We brag on having bread, but none of us are bakers We all talk having greens, but none of us own acres If none of us on acres, and none of us grow wheat Then who will feed our people when our people need to eat..." ('Reagan' by Killer Mike 2012 - four years into the Obama administration) kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJ2sooGgeJaFgbc

[@JustineBrownsBookshelf]

Hi Christoph- thanks for persisting! I’m travelling again, in Tuscany this time, and will write back to you soon.

[@christophmahler]

@@JustineBrownsBookshelf "I’m travelling again (...) Tuscany this time (...)" You get to 'go places'. Just in case, it happens to be on the way: sites of the region that come to mind would be the desolated Cistercian *Abbey of Galgano* at Siena, plundered by the infamous English condottiero John Hawkwood - nearby the hermitage of *Galgano Guidotti* - displaying the 12th century artifact of his sword in a stone - a pilgrimage destination for Latin traditionalists. Ancient, indeed would be the necropolises of Tarquinia with it's Etruscan painted tombs. The towers of the region appear like _proper houses_ to me - pouring water over pesky raiders and all...

[@JustineBrownsBookshelf]

@@christophmahler That sounds alluring… I will investigate. Today, an expedition to Florence!

[@StefanoGabbanaCptPrice]

Good Vídeo

[@jacobitewiseman3696]

You could say one thing about the pants, a man's legs wouldn't fall asleep.

[@JustineBrownsBookshelf]

They had that going for them

[@Trobynski]

I wouldn't call colonising America hardship. The prisoners, and settlers in Australia faced Hardship indeed!

[@JustineBrownsBookshelf]

America also had very harsh conditions. The East Coast has extreme weather. There were absolutely no mod cons, and there was indentured servitude as well.

[@Trobynski]

@@JustineBrownsBookshelf hi. Most colonising countries rejected Australia before the british took it. It was taken specifically as a prison. Most people died on the way. The prisoners were white people who had never seen the kind of sunshine that is experienced in the sothern hemisphere. Even living here now is harsh. Never try and tell an Australian that you had it bad. They will beat you down everytime. The Eastern US was not a desert. The settlors could grow food. Then they could grow tobacco. Thats lucky, thats heaven. You couldnt grow anything here until the explorers conquered the mountain ranges. It wasn't until the 1900's that people had regular food. And then we got put into the british cannon fodder wars. Life in the Southern Hemisphere is HARSH. South Africa etc included.

[@JustineBrownsBookshelf]

@@Trobynski yeah, I’ve been to Australia twice. It rains spiders and snakes there.