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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #14880 on: March 03, 2017, 01:59:51 pm »
Meanwhile, Jeff, I'm disappointed that you did not explain the historical roots of "rugged individualism." I find it baffling, and I rely on you to be our BetterMost historian!  :)

Don't know. Never looked into it. It sounds like a Teddy Roosevelt kind of thing, doesn't it?
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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #14881 on: March 03, 2017, 02:04:11 pm »
Today is Bring Your Action Figures to Work day. 

You're kidding! That's really a thing?

If I worked there, I'd have spent last night at Target.  :laugh:

I suppose I could have brought my Lone Ranger and Tonto, figures, or my G.I. Joe in his hot-looking Marine Corps Dress Blues.

Or my antique Marx Daniel Boone (poor guy needs an arm reattached; Injuns must have got him).
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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #14882 on: March 03, 2017, 05:39:07 pm »
Chuck, I suppose you rented a truck to get to work today?

 ::) ;D

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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #14883 on: March 04, 2017, 11:36:10 am »
Chuck, I suppose you rented a truck to get to work today?

 ::) ;D

 :laugh: :laugh:

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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #14884 on: March 04, 2017, 12:08:02 pm »
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Meanwhile, Jeff, I'm disappointed that you did not explain the historical roots of "rugged individualism." I find it baffling, and I rely on you to be our BetterMost historian!  Smiley

Don't know. Never looked into it. It sounds like a Teddy Roosevelt kind of thing, doesn't it?

Is that related to Social Darwinism or did one grow from the other?
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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #14885 on: March 04, 2017, 12:38:17 pm »
Is that related to Social Darwinism or did one grow from the other?

Probably is related.
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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #14886 on: March 04, 2017, 03:36:55 pm »
Chuck, I suppose you rented a truck to get to work today?

 ::) ;D

???


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'Voulez-vous, will you kiss my dick?'
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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #14887 on: March 04, 2017, 04:14:30 pm »
Chuck, I suppose you rented a truck to get to work today?

 ::) ;D

???

To haul all your action figures, Sweetie.
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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #14888 on: March 04, 2017, 06:52:06 pm »
Exactly.

Thanks for clarifying, Jeff!   ;D

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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #14889 on: March 05, 2017, 03:07:24 pm »
Probably is related.

Apparently not, according to Prof. Google.

Rugged individualism definition:
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The belief that all individuals, or nearly all individuals, can succeed on their own and that government help for people should be minimal. The phrase is often associated with policies of the Republican party and was widely used by the Republican president Herbert Hoover. The phrase was later used in scorn by the Democratic presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman to refer to the disasters of Hoover's administration, during which the stock market Crash of 1929 occurred and the Great Depression began.


Social Darwinism definition:
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The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.


The latter has been discredited for the reasons mentioned -- I think it was also used to justify eugenics -- whereas the former concept is still widely embraced.