Manifest Destiny's inherent tendency to its destination of destruction.

This day I am sacrificing Sense and Sensibility to expend forty minutes in the pursuit of this "blog" post. The eponymous aforementioned prior institution: "Manifest destiny" is hopefully known by a number of you. If not... I am disappointed.

"It is our manifest destiny to overspread the continent" John O'Sullivan, an editor wrote in the decade of eighteen-thirty. This led to numerous sickeningly allegorical paintings featuring the tread of progress o'erstepping the verdant fields... Well, you understand.
Needless to say, wouldn't it be a fair exhibition of the overt falliance of this "Manifest Destiny" if "overspread" is included in the description? Wouldn't... you... really think.

Of course, America already did have human inhabitants before 1492. In fact, the world was in existence before 1492. Nonetheless, these inhabitants went on their merry way - and not-quite-so-merry in the case of the Mesoamerican cultures such as the Aztec or Maya, who practiced human sacrifice, although their Andean neighbor the Inca did not - until the colonizers came. Then the Puritans came (Requisite digression: Elizabeth I was getting a little fed up with her people whinging about those annoying fanatics, so the Puritans decided that it would be most advantageous to pick up sticks. And go to that wonderful land ripe for the taking. Yuuuuup). Then America was founded! Good for America, bad for the Native Americans.

And onward went the tide of imperialism. How the Americans rebelled against their colonizers for their imperialism, but followed in the English footsteps by trying to obliterate other cultures remorsefully. The English only professed that they were trying to civilize them! Blatant lie of course, and yet the Americans decided they were the rulers?

The Native American peoples of this continent have a traditional tenet. The land, what you step on, does not belong to you. You belong to the land, what gives you water and food and shade and and rain and minerals. It makes sense, doesn't it, Reader?

Now, even today in our epoch of smartphones, i-Pads, eBooks, and computers, after massacres and their tribe's poisoning, these cultures survive. Some languages only have a few speakers remaining. Only a few, Reader! But they survive. I say, more power to them.

When Columbus stepped ashore the New World - Or another Old World - He deemed the aboriginal inhabitants Indians, for he believed he stood on the Indies or the present Philippines. He opened the floodgates and in rushed the conquistadors. It wasn't his fault. It was a human tragedy.

The next time my reader - You Reader, whomever you may be - Refers to the aborigines of America? The Native Americans? Please refrain from Indians. Indians live on the designated Asian subcontinent. Native Americans may not be excruciatingly   correct, as the only native Americans are probably just the relations of the beavers and elk, but in my mind, it is certainly more correct than Indians.
Capiche?

Very much appreciated. Maybe their both sometimes, humans can be humongous, hypocritical jerks but again, they're pretty awesome often and that's the important thing.  Even cynical

-Anacostia Mirabow-Marignac can support that.