Yeah they wanted to build railways pretty early on. BC made it a condition of joining. Of course there’s nothing wrong with building infrastructure. What was very wrong was starving indigenous people off their land to make way for the railroad. But that happened in the early 1880s. At the time of Confederation in 1867 this sort of thing couldn’t have been considered since at that time since it wouldn’t be possible to starve indigenous people off their land since there were still Bison around then.
History often gets simplified and condensed. If it was over a hundred years ago things that were decades apart seem like they all happened at the same time. People were generally terrible back then. The opposition party in McDonald’s time did criticize him for starving indigenous people. Not for doing it, but because they said he wasn’t doing it enough.
I don’t go for the “he was of his time” excuse though. The John A. McDonald did terrible things. But should we define this country by the actions of terrible politicians?
But should we define this country by the actions of terrible politicians?
For someone so clearly educated, your conceptual blindspot is… Interesting.
As you enjoy your aerial view of the forest and marvel at the patterns, take note not to mistake the antics of the little people with the Creator’s great spirit guidance.
I think you’re confusing critical thinking with a blindspot. I’m able to separate out abstract concepts and don’t need categorize everything as good or evil. Most things are in a grey area in between.
The concept of Canada that’s continuously progressed from people voting in a democratic system is good. I don’t see that being synonymous with a statue of John A MacDonald or a picture of him being on the 10 dollar bill, because that’s silly. I also don’t see as being synonymous with atrocities committed by John A. MacDonald. Being able to separate things doesn’t mean someone is blind to those things.
In fact I’d say people that throw a bunch of things into a single bucket and mix it all up are blind to many positives and potential future progress. It’s hard to move forward when you’re always looking backwards. Especially if when you look backwards and only have some very fuzzy vibes about the past. It’s best to separate good works from the bad deeds so you can continue the good works and make effort to prevent bad deeds from occurring again.
Also, I’m not interested in any religion that believes in belittling people.
Critical thinking involves listening and reasoning, when presented with external information. You literally hyper-lane focus on the 30% percent that is put before you, and then diagonal read into a 70% that isn’t there.
I am not selling you a religion, I am being poignant. There was a working system for civilization in place before the Dutch and the French came over, and the English came sniffing after them. A system that still can be adapted and scales up, but there’s this whole other thing in the way, with its epicenter in this continent.
Misunderstand my point all you want, at least you’re stumbling towards a better path instead of stumbling the other way, and that is enough.
Yeah they wanted to build railways pretty early on. BC made it a condition of joining. Of course there’s nothing wrong with building infrastructure. What was very wrong was starving indigenous people off their land to make way for the railroad. But that happened in the early 1880s. At the time of Confederation in 1867 this sort of thing couldn’t have been considered since at that time since it wouldn’t be possible to starve indigenous people off their land since there were still Bison around then.
History often gets simplified and condensed. If it was over a hundred years ago things that were decades apart seem like they all happened at the same time. People were generally terrible back then. The opposition party in McDonald’s time did criticize him for starving indigenous people. Not for doing it, but because they said he wasn’t doing it enough.
I don’t go for the “he was of his time” excuse though. The John A. McDonald did terrible things. But should we define this country by the actions of terrible politicians?
For someone so clearly educated, your conceptual blindspot is… Interesting.
As you enjoy your aerial view of the forest and marvel at the patterns, take note not to mistake the antics of the little people with the Creator’s great spirit guidance.
I think you’re confusing critical thinking with a blindspot. I’m able to separate out abstract concepts and don’t need categorize everything as good or evil. Most things are in a grey area in between.
The concept of Canada that’s continuously progressed from people voting in a democratic system is good. I don’t see that being synonymous with a statue of John A MacDonald or a picture of him being on the 10 dollar bill, because that’s silly. I also don’t see as being synonymous with atrocities committed by John A. MacDonald. Being able to separate things doesn’t mean someone is blind to those things.
In fact I’d say people that throw a bunch of things into a single bucket and mix it all up are blind to many positives and potential future progress. It’s hard to move forward when you’re always looking backwards. Especially if when you look backwards and only have some very fuzzy vibes about the past. It’s best to separate good works from the bad deeds so you can continue the good works and make effort to prevent bad deeds from occurring again.
Also, I’m not interested in any religion that believes in belittling people.
Critical thinking involves listening and reasoning, when presented with external information. You literally hyper-lane focus on the 30% percent that is put before you, and then diagonal read into a 70% that isn’t there.
I am not selling you a religion, I am being poignant. There was a working system for civilization in place before the Dutch and the French came over, and the English came sniffing after them. A system that still can be adapted and scales up, but there’s this whole other thing in the way, with its epicenter in this continent.
Misunderstand my point all you want, at least you’re stumbling towards a better path instead of stumbling the other way, and that is enough.