We will make our annual observation that today is not just the - TopicsExpress



          

We will make our annual observation that today is not just the anniversary of American independence, but effectively the day that determined the shape of the English-speaking world for the next two plus centuries. As both Benjamin Franklin and Adam Smith had projected, the bulk of the English-speaking population was destined to end up on the western shore of the Pond, and eventually parliamentary domination would have followed it. Arguably a better world, but we will never be able to know that. So, Happy Birthday America, and effectively Canada and Great Britain. Even the founding of Australia was a byproduct of the unavailability of America as a convict dump, although somebody would have eventually colonized it.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 15:34:40 +0000

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