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The Real History of 4th of July and What It Really Means For You
True history is remarkable and complicated with incredible characters and eccentrics who, most of the time, made things up as they went along. History looks back at events and finds patterns of behaviors that seem to line up as if it was all a carefully planned campaign.
It never was.
The present is chaotic because the effect of decisions can never be predicted with certainty. If it could, then leaders would have been ahead of the Covid response rather than always reactive.
In America, we just had the July 4th celebration.
Okay, I’ll come out and say it; I’m not too fond of July 4th, Independence day in America. My main reason is the damn fireworks. I’m an animal lover, and I suppose an animal rights activist of sorts, and most animals are terrified by fireworks. I know when and where the organized displays are, and I can prepare the animals for that, but some people set their own off at the most inappropriate times and in ridiculous places and without warning. Animals don’t understand what is happening. They are petrified.
Have you ever questioned why we humans love firework displays?
