Ep. 440 Daniel Hawk - Reckoning with America's Past and Imagining a Better Future
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Daniel Hawk discusses America's founding history and the implications of the Doctrine of Discovery on current societal beliefs.
America turns 250 this year, and we'll tell the old story again. But where does it actually start? Daniel Hawk traces our founding back past 1776 to the Doctrine of Discovery that gave Christian powers the right to seize "unclaimed" land, and to a reading of Genesis that turned wilderness into property and the people already here into obstacles. We talk about the myth of innocence: the belief that we are fundamentally good, that the brutal parts didn't happen or didn't count. It let us justif...
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