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Originally Posted by Nembrionic
Bwahaha 
Wasn't Alexander the Great and his army a great example of people who went back to the wilderness? Yes...it was. And LONG before anyone was even thinking about setting sail to the "new world"
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Alexander went into the wilderness to conquer and possess. The pilgrims FLED a system they decided was inadequate to their rights as human beings.
I'm not saying America hasn't drifted shamefully from those founding ideals (as recently, even, as the illegitimate detainment of Arab-Americans in Cuba without process), all I'm saying is something that had never happened before in history happened at the genesis of the United States, and (even though we've grown corrupt and depraved in our ways since then) it was really kinda cool.
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