Manifest Destiny

内容摘要

The whites are the winning race, not only in North America. It is the tradition in the USA to call this phenomenon 'Manifest Destiny'. Christians used to believe that Jesus helped the Europeans to conquer the New World. Others refer to Darwinism and white supremacy. Critics put the blame on slavery, colonialism and apartheid. But all those ideologies fail to explain the magic of destiny. With good reason, the young USA was not based on Puritan ideas of a Christian Calvinist tyranny. Instead a humane state ideology was established, a mixture of belief in liberty, justice and human rights as well as in Manifest Destiny. This text looks in great detail at US-American history, and how the whites won the west, starting with dubious earliest traces of whites in the Americas. The text also gives answers to other destiny-related questions. A lot of typical stories, from the adventures of travellers to famous events of history, from the plots of Hollywood films to classical Shakespearean plays, helps to understand how destiny works. And this text only begins when destiny starts to become unexplainable or even unbelievable. The text also addresses the most basic issues of religion and philosophy. Are we bound for paradise, or must we fear global catastrophes and more mad terror assaults? Old-time ideologies present a confusing and often worthless plethora of lores. We find that only a very new way may really allow us to understand our reality and to foresee our destiny.