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A definite ice cream theme in this one. You should have gotten a photo of yourself eating ice cream whilst in the regency frock coat, to rub it in with the wife.

An entire novel could have been written about Harrison's waiting for his bounty to be paid out, and the intransigence of Parliament in that affair. (By the way, bounties would be a very effective alternative to copyright and patent laws, which are biblically questionable.)

There's a lot to mine in the theme of master/slave mentalities. The pagans have done some interesting work on it. I like to map the parable of the talents overtop of it; that makes for some interesting parallels. The slave mentality maps onto the "God is stingy" mentality very nicely, along with the economic ideas such as high time preference behavior.

Here is what I found to be a stunning example of how metanarratives like "negative world" can be turned topsy-turvy simply by changing the context. So, the fella who wrote that original essay sits in the context of a privileged, college educated white male writing for an elite magazine. And, in his metanarrative, Christianity is privileged and assumed in his ideal past.

But what about somebody sitting right smack in the middle of that ideal past, such as Sybil Jordan Hampton, one of the first black students to go back to Little Rock Central High School after the famous Little Rock Nine first integrated the school in 1957? Did her context feel like "Christian positive world"?

(Hat tip to David French for that one.)

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