Angel Martinez’s Reviews > A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present > Status Update

"Were the Founding Fathers wise and just men trying to achieve a good balance? In fact, they did not want a balance, except one which kept things as they were, a balance among the dominant forces at that time" (pg 101)

State as a crystallization of a specific relation during moment of rupture. Reminds me of the TYBW arc. Especially Soul Reapers being known balancers and associated with the SK right arm

Finished Metal Gear Solid 2, didnt know the Sons of Liberty were based on a real group 😳

"There must be in their social bond" [Hector St. Jean Crevecoeur] said, "something singularly captivatin, and far superior to anything to be boasted among us; for thousands of Europeans are Indians, and we have no examples of even one of those Aborigines having from choice become Europeans" (Pg 54).

V telling Europeans would rather be with the "savages" and not the "civilized" (as the owning class would say)