Ya know... I think it takes a really sick person to NOT appreciate what the founders provided for us. People don't appreciate what THEY didn't have to PAY for.
Ever notice that? How people (not all) don't appreciate something as much, if someone else paid for it.
And people never know exactly what they had, until it's gone.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30126165 You just take our indifference in a completely wrong way. It's not about a lack of respect, gratefulness or appreciation. Has nothing to do with those things.
Let's take it to a very simple term. Let's use one of the posts from the very beginning of this thread about killing the natives of this country.
When your great grandfather lives in a house under another person's rule. All of his money goes to the owners of that house. He hears of another house a long journey away. It's occupied, but it's a big house and they aren't a very civilized bunch so that's not much to worry about.
He takes the long journey and moves into a room of the occupied house. He finds a room that only has a couple other natives in it. After a short time, he declares, this can be MY house. I can finally be free!!!
So he tells his slave to start cleaning the next room because he needs a place to settle during the day. This next room is even more occupied with those rascally natives.
After some thought, he begins pushing them further and further to other rooms away from him. Any resistance is met with death as this is HIS house!! And, he has a right under his freedom to make a place for his future.
A couple generations pass and you're now alive living in the house given to you. And while you appreciate it, you one day are walking through the rooms just thinking about the history of the place. Paint chips off the wall and blood begins to show. You begin to realize how you got the house. And while you will always love your great grandfather, and you appreciate that he made a place for you...you suddenly have a different feeling while in that house...you're not as comfortable..maybe a bit guilty..
After lots of walking and thinking in the house, you've come to a realization that you don't want to make the same mistakes twice. You feel that you need to evolve to the next step and move past your history and stop idolizing your past and start looking towards a completely unique and amazing future...just like your great grandfather thought he was doing.(In his own way)