Land Land Land – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:20:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://files.bluecerealeducation.com/2023/06/BowlIcon.png Land Land Land – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com 32 32 This Land Is Whose Land? (From “Well, OK Then…”) https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/land-whose-land-well-ok-then-0/ Thu, 22 Nov 2018 13:21:20 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/land-whose-land-well-ok-then-0/ People wonder why to this day Oklahoma is one giant inferiority complex, with a side of paranoid delusion. Texas proudly waves its ‘six flags’ representing various stages of its history. Oklahoma had three prior to statehood, playing ‘hot potato’ with us like the homely friend of the popular girls they were really looking to – um… "homestead."

But finally, a nation that needed us! That could appreciate us! Say what you like about the early U.S., they were some exploring and expanding fools! President Jefferson sent out Lewis and Clark and Co., who began mapping the entire area of – 

Hey! Where are you going? Meriwether! Bill! Down here, big fellas! It’s me, Okla –

*sigh*

]]> 482 Land Ownership and the Foundations of Democracy, Part Two (Westward, Ho!) https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/land-ownership-and-foundations-democracy-part-two-westward-ho/ Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:37:48 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/land-ownership-and-foundations-democracy-part-two-westward-ho/ My son would fill his tray with everything he could fit in, including that cafeteria classic – brightly colored, cubed Jello. My daughter was much pickier, but inevitably she chose the wiggly cubes as well. The boy would snarf down his selections in minutes; the girl would take hours if we let her. 

It is worth noting that she didn’t usually eat the Jello. 

She liked to look at it. The table would inevitably get jostled a bit, or otherwise nudged, and the Jello would wiggle. It’s what Jello does. She loved that. And, to be fair, that’s just as valid a use for Jello as any other. (Just because something is edible doesn’t mean it serves no other function – otherwise, neither houseplants nor family pets would be around long.) 

But that’s not how my son saw it.

]]> 481 Land Ownership and the Foundations of Democracy, Part One (What Made This Particular Destiny So Manifest?) https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/land-ownership-and-foundations-democracy-part-one-what-made-particular-destiny-so-manifest/ Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:09:33 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/land-ownership-and-foundations-democracy-part-one-what-made-particular-destiny-so-manifest/ So we have two issues in play as the Founders wrestle with outlining this new government – the connection between paying into the system and thus earning a voice in the running of that system, and the practical challenges of who exactly “consents” to that government on behalf of the whole. Little wonder our progenitors might try to reconcile them in concert – hopefully without overtly dialing back those fancy new ideals they’d been proclaiming to justify the entire project. 

They weren’t starting from scratch. There were some longstanding assumptions about land ownership – or the lack thereof – with which they could begin.

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