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46ten · 17 days

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Hogeland's "The Hamilton Scheme," new book for May 2024

[Here's a search for all my posts with Hogeland in them.]

Ohh, The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding is finally coming out at the end of this month (May 2024) - I've been following Hogeland discussing it for several years!

Hogeland is not at all interested in Alexander Hamilton as a persona (most AmRev and early American historians aren't), but as a policy maker and creator of the federal govt and financial system. And he's sharply critical.

Hogeland and Robert Sullivan (author of the 2016 Harper's magazine cover article "The Hamilton Cult: Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the main himself?", which also quotes Hogeland, will be discussing the book at the National Archives on May 16th, 1-2 pm EDT.

I think this quote from Hogeland in the above linked article is key to his approach:

" 'But it’s just the icing on the cake of this industry that’s existed for decades now, trying to promote Hamilton as something other than what he actually was.” The duel with Burr, his relationship with his wife and his mistress — these are rich material for a narrative biography, Hogeland concedes, but in terms of Hamilton’s impact on the formation and the very nature of the United States, they are little more than footnotes. “Accidents,” he calls them. They lead us to overlook what Hamilton thought was his own purpose in life. "

Blurb: "William Hogeland is the best guide I have found to understanding how we today are, for good and evil, children of Alexander.” ―J. Bradford DeLong, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Kirkus review:

A lively if overlong history of the origins of federal power.

A reader of a QAnon-ish bent might come away from this book convinced that Alexander Hamilton founded the so-called deep state. That person would have a point. As Revolutionary War–era historian Hogeland writes, Hamilton was committed to founding a strong, even imperial national government; to achieve it, he crafted instruments of a national economy. One of them was public debt, the “driving wheel” for a great nation. Without debt, the fledgling nation could not have funded any number of endeavors, not least the first foreign war against the pirates of the Barbary Coast. Much as Thomas Jefferson disliked the specter of a federal power stronger than that of the states, without that debt, the Louisiana Purchase could never have been completed. As Hogeland shows, the struggle between Hamilton and his states’ rights–minded opponents was an existential one “over the fundamental meaning of American government,” and in many respects, it continues today. Hamilton had a talent for making enemies, though friends such as Declaration of Independence signer Robert Morris, wealthy and powerful, helped him survive politically. Morris’ great lesson was one of “commercial domination,” to which Hamilton aspired more as a national than a personal accomplishment. Hogeland’s story is lengthy and circumstantial, but marked by plenty of drama: Hamilton’s stepping out from under George Washington’s shadow to become the foremost “Continentalist” politician of his day; his pitched battles with Albert Gallatin, “treasury secretary to two presidents,” over the structure of the national economy; and Thomas Jefferson’s eventual dismantling of “the Hamilton scheme” and subsequent returns to it until the hybrid called “Jeffersonian ends by Hamiltonian means” took root. A well-wrought tale of how the American empire came to be born on the balance sheet as much as by the gun.

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cmanateesto · 2 years

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Whiskey Rebellion: A Frivolous Affair?

The United States was founded and the Militias delayed development. The militias incorporated the same level of resistance as they did prior. This was in protest of a Whiskey Tax. Without context, it seems like a frivolous affair. Public schools teach it in this manner without examining the context. I was also told the militia died down with little incident, which was a blatant lie.

After the United States won its independence, it incurred a war debt. Several war debts actually. This tab had debts that included France, the Netherlands, and Spain. Alexander Hamilton proposed consolidating the debt into a single fund. While that made keeping track of the debt easier it still left the United States with $54 million worth of debt.

Elson, Bob. "Foreign Aid." History of the United States of America. Kathy Leigh. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1904. 275-279. Web. <http://www.usahistory.info/Revolution/foreign-aid.html>.

Chernow, Ron (2004). Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1-59420-009-0. OCLC 53083988 – via Internet Archive.

How would they cover this fiscal gap? That’s where the Whiskey Tax would come in. It was a tax on all distilled hard liquor, but Whiskey was the main product. It was an accessible product to many farmers. They produce the Whiskey with surplus barley, wheat, or corn. Many farmers in the western frontiers produced this and used it in absence of the dollar.

Taxes were already a hot button for many Americans due to previous experiences. Hamilton’s argument that Whiskey was a Luxury Tax, thus would be the most difficult tax to contend with.

One problem is, Whiskey wasn’t a luxury product. I know, let me explain. Upon rescinding dependency on Great Britain, that meant getting rid of their currency. So what would they use in place of that? The American dollar would stand in place of the pound. The U.S. was a new nation and that meant they would have to print enough money. Enough money so that it can be a currency and flow to the entire economy, not select parts. The problem was that the dollars weren’t getting to everyone fast enough. So does that mean farmers out west would sit and wait until they get their money? No. They would use this hard liquor as a form of currency while they waited. This is a practice often used in hard times when financial institutions are absent.

Hogeland, William (2006). The whiskey rebellion : George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the frontier rebels who challenged America's newfound sovereignty. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5491-5. OCLC 1036919582 – via Internet Archive.

Armitage, S. (2020, January 31). How Vodka Became a Currency in Russia. Atlas Obscura. Retrieved November 17, 2022, from https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vodka-currency-russia

When Congress passed the Whiskey Excise Tax, they didn’t take into account how early it was for the country. The country had yet to establish itself to all citizens. It was easy to think that America was ready if you were in a developed region like Boston or New York. They failed to take into account the Western farmers in Pennsylvania or Virginia.

When the bill passed, if you wanted your distilled liquor to be legal you had to register. This registration already causes two obstacles for farmers. It was a financial and an obstacle of time. The time and distance it took for farmers to mail or travel to a Federal Courthouse were astronomical. Mailing it would take the same amount of time or longer. I also mention that they use whiskey in absence of the government's provision of currency. It was not a luxury product as Alexander Hamilton would argue.

"We should take time here to understand exactly what these new taxes meant to the farmer-distillers of the time--these guys didn’t have any cash.

They might have been making a decent living, but many, indeed, most transactions at that time were conducted by barter. It’s a grand way to do business: Pop into the town center with a few quarts of whiskey, trade one to the local seamstress in return for a new dress for the missus, another to the fishmonger who will supply you with dinner for the next four Fridays, and when the landlord is passing by, maybe you can persuade him to take a gallon of your finest whiskey in lieu of a few months rent. The scene and the amounts are merely hypothetical, but it gives you a rough idea of why the farmers had empty pockets."

Regan, G., & Regan, M. H. (2020). American Whiskey History. American Whiskey Trail. Retrieved November 17, 2022, from https://americanwhiskeytrail.distilledspirits.org/american-whiskey-history

Under the conditions of the bill, the more whiskey you distilled, the lower your taxes were. The less whiskey you distilled, the higher your taxes were. If this was a bill that aimed to pay off the war debt wouldn’t it make more sense to tax a higher quantity of whiskey?

Some concessions would come. I.E: a higher tax on liquor distilled from imported products as opposed to local raw products. The distilleries were in favor of this bill when it passed so it didn't seem to affect them much at all. The question then is: did rural production exceed industrial production? Did it warrant focusing on rural output over industrial output?

This moment defines the priorities Hamilton and men like him. Representatives voiced their concerns to Congress in regards to the tax. Hamilton branded them radical Anti-Federalists instead of addressing the issue. Hmm...so avoiding the question is also an American past time?

Library of Congress. (1994). A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875. Retrieved November 17, 2022, from https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=009/llsp009.db&recNum=156

Holt, Wythe (January 6, 2004). "The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794: A Democratic Working-Class Insurrection" (PDF). University of Georgia. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 25, 2011.

Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. (2018, May 18). ." Gale encyclopedia of u.s. economic history. . encyclopedia.com. 15 Nov. 2022 . Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved November 17, 2022, from https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/whiskey-rebellion Slaughter, Thomas P. (1986). The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-977187-5. OCLC 770873834.

Washington did send diplomats to de-escalate the situation. We've already reviewed Hamilton's opinion and many Federalists shared the sentiment. This was a majority of Washington's party despite his disdain for factionalism. The Conditions laid for the people were:

A. Accept this Whiskey Excise Tax.

B. The Federal Government sends a standing Army to put down the insurrections.

There was a reason to do this. Tax Collectors were being kidnapped, tarred, and feathered like before the Revolution. There isn't a reason to deny the necessity for using a standing Army, but there were moderate voices.

There was enough civility on both fronts where diplomacy was an option. The Federalists adopted a belligerent and provocative attitude. Hamilton also favored searching and seizing people's homes for enforcement purposes.

Hmmm...I recall a certain Bill of Rights that had something to say about that? I don't know. Your scalp gets really itchy pondering the history behind these Amendments.

Many of the militia who would harass the Feds fled further west. These lands would become Tennessee and Kentucky. The lack of capital offense execution disappointed Hamilton...of course it did. They captured 18 rebels, two convicted of high treason. Turns out the people they captured weren't even the actual leaders of the rebellion. Washington would pardon them instead of letting them hang.

Craughwell, Thomas J.; Phelps, M. William (2008). Failures of the Presidents: From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraq. Fair Winds Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-61673-431-2.

Some schools say this was an event that empowered the Federal Government. I would argue this move only weakened the Federal Government. The Revolution occurred with the understanding that Great Britain didn't respect their autonomy. Common people rejected the monarchy because it taxed them without consideration. Now the United States was pushing a tax that sabotaged rural communities.

At this point in history, it was no longer endorsed by the people who helped it form. It discarded its popular support by enslaving itself to the whims of radicals. Radicals who were only willing to give concession to total submission. This left no room for conciliation or compromise between the conflicting parties. With those who supported the Whiskey Excise versus those that didn't, it is an epitome. More so than the American Civil War where slavery is often the scapegoat. This distracts from the true conflict between two kinds of American people: rich and poor. The haves and have-nots.

#united states of america #united states #whiskey rebellion #history #american history #american politics #rich vs poor #whiskey #kentucky #pennsylvania #tennessee #bill of rights #federalism

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walnutart · 2 years

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I have a confession. When I was but a young lass (12-13ish), in the golden age of this fandom like 5 to 6 years ago,,, Heather Chandler (charissa hogeland and Jessica keenan wynn's to be specific) was in fact my official gay awakening. My feelings for that woman were hot and burning and have remained such to this day.

#heathers the movie #heathers the musical #heather chandler

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honestly Ryan mccartan is a good jd but oh my GOD Dan domenech just plays the role amazingly

the west end jd ain't that bad either tbh

domenech does it so so well i love him sm omgm

ryans good too but i just cant take it seriously because i associate him too much with liv and maddie and i cant imagine him as a crazy guy

but charissa hogeland will forever and ever be my favorite chandler. i love her yells and her "VERONICAAAAAAAAAAAÀAAUGJJFNBTNGGH" is so on point for the character i just love ot

#im crying

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regioonlineofficial · 2 days

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Op woensdag 22 mei stond de gemeente samen met bewoners en omwonenden stil bij de start van de bouw van 26 nieuwe woningen in Kantens. Aan de Kooistraat werden de oude woningen gesloopt vanwege de versterkingsopgave. Aannemingsbedrijf HTO bouwt nu 10 woningen voor Goud Wonen; Bouwgroep Dijkstra Draisma bouwt in opdracht van Nationaal Coördinator Groningen (NCG) 16 woningen voor particuliere eigenaren. De woningen aan de Kooistraat zijn de eerste woningen in deze straat die vanwege de versterkingsopgave zijn gesloopt en nieuw worden gebouwd. Later volgt ook een aantal woningen aan het begin van de Kooistraat en de Bredeweg (fase 2) en nog later aan de Meidoornstraat, de Pastorieweg en de Bredeweg (fase 3). In totaal worden er in de Kooistraat en de directe omgeving 68 woningen gesloopt en komen daar 65 woningen op ongeveer dezelfde plek voor terug. Lang en uitdagend proces Kantens is het eerste dorp in de gemeente Het Hogeland waar gestart is met de gebiedsgerichte versterking en het maken van de plannen voor de inrichting van de buurt. “Het is een uitdagend proces geweest voor bewoners en de betrokken organisaties. Het verliep soms moeizaam en zeker niet alles is goed verlopen. We hebben als gemeente hier veel lessen geleerd en nemen dat mee in de volgende fases in Kantens”, aldus Mariëtte de Visser, wethouder gemeente Het Hogeland. Ruimte voor bouw diverse woningtypen Alle woningen zijn ontworpen door TWA architecten. TWA architecten is voor het ontwerp voor de woningen geïnspireerd door een boerderij. “Goud Wonen bouwt drie type woningen terug. Deze mix aan woningen voorziet in de behoefte aan betaalbare woningen voor ouderen, gezinnen en starters in Kantens. We vinden het belangrijk om daarin samen op te trekken met bewoners, door te luisteren naar wat zij belangrijk vinden. Ook zijn we kritisch op het ontwerp, zodat de woningen uiteindelijk een aanwinst zijn voor het dorp”, zegt Harry Oosting, directeur bestuurder Goud Wonen. Impressie woningen Kooistraat Kantens - Beeld: TWA architecten Ab van der Schans, directeur versterking Stad & Ommeland NCG, vertelt: “De voorbereiding van dit project heeft lang geduurd. We zijn blij dat we nu met z’n allen dit punt hebben bereikt en dat de bouw van de woningen is gestart. Naar verwachting kunnen de bewoners in het voorjaar van 2025 terugverhuizen naar hun aardbevingsbestendige, gasloze en energiezuinige woning.” Groene wijk met ruimte om elkaar te ontmoeten Met bewoners is door gemeente Het Hogeland een plan gemaakt voor de inrichting van de straten waar sloop en nieuwbouw plaatsvindt. De buurt wordt groener en krijgt een nieuwe uitstraling met een ruimere opzet om te spelen en elkaar te ontmoeten. “De sloop van de woningen biedt een kans om ook de omgeving van de woningen en de buurt te verbeteren. Zo pakken we direct het riool aan, zorgen we voor verbetering van de waterhuishouding, meer parkeerplekken en maken we de wijk groener".– ", volgens wethouder Mariëtte de Visser.

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gekruidengeroerd · 2 months

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Dag allemaal,

Ondertussen zijn er meerdere kruidenactiviteiten vast ingepland. Misschien ziet er iets voor je bij.

Woensdag 27 maart organiseer ik een eetbare wilde plantenwandeling in Grijpskerk.

Tijden: 10.00 - 12.00 uur incl. een kleine proeverij. Je ontvangt de recepten die we bespreken in je mailbox.

Prijs € 25.- p.p.

Nog steeds hebben we een paar kooien beschikbaar tijdens de kruidenzeiltocht. van 29 maart - 1 april 2024

I.v.m. ene annulering zijn er weer 2 plekken beschikbaar gekomen voor de zeewierdag/nacht van 3 tot 4 mei.

Bij de oestertocht zijn zoveel aanmeldingen dat we een tweede schip hebben ingeschakeld. Ook de Vlieter kan mensen meenemen voor deze dagtocht. Ook mogelijk met voorovernachting.

Kijk voor meer info op de website van de Najade

www.zandbankzeilcharters.com

Dauwtrappen & wild ontbijt aan het water

9 mei 2024 06.30 - 09.30 Locatie Grijpskerk Prijs: € 37.50 p.p.

Het is nog vroeg, je hebt een vrije dag en toch zet je je wekker.

Janet Frieling en Sanne Scheltena nodigen je uit voor een vroege wandeling door het gebied van de NAM-locatie bij Grijpskerk. Onderweg staan we stil bij verschillende kruiden en nemen we je mee in onze passie voor eetbare wilde kruiden. Welke kun je gebruiken, wat is hun smaak en welke toepassingen in de keuken zijn er.

Na de wandeling sluiten we af met een wilde picknick op een kleurig kleed langs het water. Zie in gedachten kruidenbrood met feta voor je, paardenbloemengelei, thee van gefermenteerd wilgenroosje, ingelegde daslook kappertjes en een eitje met gerookt daslook zout. Dit zijn zo maar een paar voorbeelden van gerechtjes waar wij voor gaan zorgen.

Wat in ieder geval zeker is, dit ontbijt is éénmalig. Je zult het nooit meer op deze manier voorgezet krijgen.

Deze activiteit wordt georganiseerd door Janet Frieling (Gekruid & Geroerd) en Sanne Scheltena (Greendreamster). Janet en Sanne zijn beide wildplukkers met jarenlange ervaring en wilde koks met een enorme creatieve drive naar nieuwe en bijzondere smaken van de culinaire wilde keuken. Alle gerechten zijn vegetarisch.

Over Natuurpark de Noorderriet

Natuurpark de Noorderriet in Grijpskerk staat ook wel bekend als de NAM-locatie. Rondom de gasopslag is in de jaren ’90 van de vorige eeuw een natuurpark met water, weide, moeras en bosjes aangelegd. Inmiddels wordt het park ecologisch beheerd en is er een grote diversiteit aan wilde planten te vinden.d

Zoet en zuur in de natuur 28 mei 14.00 - 16.30 Locatie Houwerzijl Prijs: € 35.-

Bestaat er een workshop waarbij je na afloop een moeder mee naar huis mag nemen?

Ja! Janet Frieling en Sanne Scheltena nodigen je uit om samen de wondere wereld van azijn te ontdekken. Wat is azijn, welke soorten zijn er. Bestaan er geneeskrachtige azijnen? Hoe maak je azijn en wat is een azijnmoeder? Waar moet je opletten bij het maken van azijn en meer.

Om een tegenhanger aan het zuur te geven gaan we deze middag ook verder in op het maken van koude gefermenteerde siropen. Wat is het voordeel hiervan en hoe maak je het.

Tot slot mengen we zoet en zuur in de vorm van een shrub. Een drankje op basis van azijn, suiker en fruit en of wilde kruiden. Er is veel te proeven. En je gaat naar huis met een azijnmoeder om thuis ook je eigen azijn te kunnen maken en een flesje vlierbloesemazijn (in de maak). We beginnen de workshop met een kleine kruidenwandeling in het groene speelbos achter het Theemuseum in Houwerzijl. Daarna wordt de workshop vervolgd in de tuin van Janet Frieling.

Dit wilde event wordt georganiseerd door Janet Frieling (Gekruid & Geroerd) en Sanne Scheltena (Greendreamster). Janet en Sanne zijn beide wildplukkers met jarenlange ervaring en wilde koks met een enorme creatieve drive naar nieuwe en bijzondere smaken van de culinaire wilde keuken.

Over het Speelbos in Houwerzijl

Houwerzijl is een pittoresk dorp op het Hogeland van Groningen. Het dorp is ontstaan rondom een sluis aan de oever van het Reitdiep. Het speelbos is een ecologisch aangelegd en beheerd bosje met leuke wandelpaden achter het Theemuseum in Houwerzijl. Hoewel het een klein bosje is zijn er toch veel verschillende eetbare planten en paddenstoelen te vinden.

Wild tea & kruidenwandeling

Vrijdag 31 mei 14.00 - 1700 uur. Locatie Houwerzijl Prijs: € 37.50

Janet Frieling en Sanne Scheltena nodigen je uit om mee te gaan met een kruidenwandeling langs de eetbare kruiden, bloemen en bessen van dit seizoen in het Speelbos van Houwerzijl. Onderweg staan we stil bij verschillende kruiden en nemen we je mee in onze passie voor eetbare wilde kruiden. Welke kun je gebruiken, wat is hun smaak en welke toepassingen in de keuken zijn er.

Na de wandeling schuiven we voor een wild tea aan bij de lange tafel in de weelderige tuin van Janet Frieling . Bij slecht weer kunnen we onder de overkapping of in Janet haar grote woonkeuken zitten. De tafel is gevuld met meerdere zoete en hartige gerechtjes op basis van wilde kruiden zullen de tafel versieren. Denk aan zandcupjes met een wilde rozenmousse, zevenblad taartjes met feta en geroosterd berenklauw zaad of brandnetel pistache balletjes zijn zomaar een paar voorbeelden van wat er op tafel zal staan. We beginnen de wild tea met een wilde cocktail of mocktail, en na afloop van de workshop ontvang je een aantal van recepten van de gerechten in je mailbox.

Wat in ieder geval zeker is, deze wild tea is uniek. Je zult het nooit meer op deze manier voorgezet krijgen.

Over het Speelbos in Houwerzijl

Kwelder en zeewier wandeling 12 juni

Woensdag 12 juni Locatie Paessens Moddergat Prijs: € 30.- p.p.

optionele datum is maandag 10 juni

Leer meer over eetbare planten en zeewieren die je aantreft op de kwelder. Paessens Moddergat is een prachtige locatie waar de zee en de kwelder heel mooi bij elkaar uitkomen. We gaan niet oogsten maar je leert veel planten en wieren herkennen in hun natuurlijke habitat.

Tijd: 18.30 - 19.30 uur incl. kleine proeverij van zilte planten en zeewier.

Geef je op via: [email protected]

Voor alle workshops samen met de Greendreamster geef je je op via haar site:

www.greandreamster.nl

Hartelijke groet,

Janet

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rp-oc-bs · 8 months

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ifreakingloveroyals · 7 days

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Through the Years → Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (1,525/∞) 14 May 2024 | King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands and Queen Maxima of The Netherlands visit the center of Winsum in Winsum, Netherlands. The King and Queen visit the region Hogeland. (Photo by Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images)

#Queen Maxima #The Netherlands #2024 #Patrick van Katwijk #Getty Images #through the years: Maxima

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azspot · 1 year

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The Republican Party that now benefits from the 19th-Century stacking of the Senate (and the Electoral College!), motivating the creation of many of today’s low-population, often very reliably right-wing-friendly western states, no longer operates as the party of Lincoln, putting it mildly. And the founders, in their desire not to believe that parties would play the driving role in U.S. politics that parties naturally do play, created, with the Senate, a monster whose minoritarian mechanisms have gone far beyond anything either the anti-democratic founders or the pro-democracy Lincoln Republicans could ever have imagined.

William Hogeland

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46ten · 18 days

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I saw your post on how you think historians often create narratives and don't properly consider 18th century social codes in their arguments. I also saw your posts on Hamilton and how you think treating his actions as irrational or shocking doesn't really make sense.

Do you have some historians that you think do a good job? I noticed that even Joanne Freeman who I think is a relatively nonbiased, good historian, also sometimes talks about Hamilton's childhood and actions in similar ways. Self destructive, flying off the handle, etc.

For AH biographers, I still consider Broadus Mitchell the gold standard.

I don't want to trash Freeman - I think a lot of her work is outstanding, but she also has a historian public persona that I don't think leads her to well-reasoned takes in public discussions. (Annette Gordon-Reed, in contrast, is more sober.)

More often than not, the saying that you learn more about the biographer than you do about the subject heavily applies in AH biographies. I think folks could get a lot more from historians who are not interested in Hamilton as a persona/personal figure and who are instead engaged in political, financial, and/or legal aspects. They're the ones who often come through with a lot of citations and more context - the work is altogether more scholarly, in a way that Hamilton biographies aren't. These works sometimes get some personal facts about AH wrong, too, but as what AH left us with is his work, that's where one needs to continue to go, IMO, then branch out to more of the works covering the Anglo-American world in the late 18th century. From 2021-23, I read 13 new books that discussed AH's policy in some way, and it was great just seeing the expansiveness of how people discuss AH as part of what may be their scholarly study/approach into another area. That's also, IMO, how one can really start to self-correct from just accepting agenda-driven AH biographies.

Empire of Liberty by Gordon S. Wood (2009) - just reading the back and forth about Wood's take vs others' is really useful for seeing the narratives surrounding the way the history of the early republic is written.

Alexander Hamilton’s Public Administration by Richard T. Green (2020)

Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher became an Icon of American Capitalism by Glory M. Liu (2021)

William Hogeland is coming out with a new book at the end of this month that I'll put in a separate post, but he's also a good read for a different approach to understanding the Hamilton project, let's call it. (One can read his 2007 article Inventing Hamilton).

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MAYAworld.online

“Actually…”The MAYAworld Papers

For Lulu and the girls who are delulu

(♡⸃ ◡ ⸂♡)

People of highly technological cultures do not intend to destroy the Earth; we have just been so far removed from our relationship to it that we have forgotten that our interdependence with the Earth makes us responsible for it.

Debora Hogeland, Widening the Circle

Press Release

Dear internet user,

We are a group of ex-Silicon Valley/advertising industry employees. We’ve seen how fucked it is.

We have a plan of how it could be different.

We are fundraising $300k to prototype something else

open source

community owned.

$10 gets you beta access & secures your user#.

Make the internet great again.

mayaworld.online

Pls copy & distribute.

I. Shores

Attention is the world’s most precious resource.

Nothing happens without someone deciding to spend attention on it.

It’s behind the love, leadership and laughter in the world.

How we collectively direct attention shapes both

our imagination– what we believe is possible

& our beliefs– what we experience, real or imaginary.

Intention and practice sets the course, creating reality.

Undivided attention is prayer.

II. Bridge

You know what captures a lot of our attention these days?

Advertising.

Firstly, a caveat: Advertising can play a very helpful role in our lives.

I really want to know that a cute new business is opening in the town over.

But the 24/7 media rollercoaster means I’m more likely to know about what Rihanna is up to.

No shade to Rihanna, we didn’t know capitalism was a game until she won it,

And we’re tryna be as prolific as she -

BUT the problem with the amount of advertising we see a day

- 4000-10,000 individual ads says Google -

is that we didn’t ask for them.

Our attention is being captured against our will.

This volume of advertising means that the methods of advertisers have become more slick.

In order to ‘cut through’ and reach us,

it’s been crossed with entertainment and influencing–

The ultimate collab.

But remember, with entertainment, you pay the fare and opt into the fantasy.

It’s your choice whether to enter or not.

Advertising takes that choice away.

You enter the fake fantasy future with no disclaimer

But a call to action

BUY! THIS! PRODUCT!

It will make your life better.

And before you know it

Our minds are preoccupied with the latest gadget lip kit waist trainer laundry routine designer bag sneaker drop.

These become the decisions that form our identity

But are actually taking attention away from our dreams.

We live in a fantasy concocted by a bunch of people in a room who use

Art & Science

To design a world with no discomfort;

To design a world where perfection seems regular;

To engineer the perfect graphic - gesture - interaction - suggestion;

To get you to click buy

And reduce your dreams to a shopping cart.

Don’t they say that it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become an expert?

I guess we’re all experts now

At living in our heads

In a fantasy world that we try to conjure with products To keep the “bad” thoughts away.

Comfort, the ideal and ever-changing standard

To the point where

The slightest discomfort is a threat to our existence

Which makes comfort a prison.

Because the reality is:

Reality is uncomfortable.

We need to be able to meet discomfort to feel alive,

To experience magic.

So maintaining comfort means

We are either policing ourselves

Or distracting ourselves

From anything real

Because that would require

being able to hear our Bodies

above the sound of planted fantasies.

The techno-advertising era

Has made capitalism too manipulative;

It’s capitalism in Beast Mode.

The small businesses can’t best the beasts.

Regular Americans don’t get a chance to be great.

The algorithms are just guns for hire amplifying what is already there–

What is already hot What is already known–

Taking innovation away from all of us.

What if we made a storefront for our online attention

That WE create and own?

So we have a say in:

What we pay attention to,

When we pay attention to it.

Is freedom any more than that?

III. Sketches for MAYAworld

Own our attention, own the internet.

What becomes the norm on the internet might just become the norm in real life.

MAYAworld is:

Community owned.

Open source.

Non profit.

A place for strangers to become community.

Concept sketch 1: Collective mood board

Add images to a #hashtag instead of adding hashtags to an image. A place to collect all your thoughts around a theme together. See an idea come to life - invent the future!

Concept sketch 2: Personal board/default view

A place to map your personal dreams or to be a profile page, pulling your content from around the web. Think of yourself as the web, not the spider.

Concept sketch 3: Messages overview

A space to save the best media from your conversations.

Concept sketch 4: Plugins (both bought features and store)

Build the features you want as a community, and sell them to each other.

Concept sketch 5: Attention map, allowing you to see the direction of your attention (and your intention). Knowledge is power, see where your attention goes.

If you think it’s possible then you’re right.

Play the revolution.

MAYAworld.online

Intermission

We do not belong to a flag, but to a world that does not yet exist; and every word we write, every act of kindness we try to do, is in preparation for this.

If we must belong anywhere, then we belong to the future.

We are proud citizens of nowhere, because our ideal residence cannot be seen, we have not yet brought it into being.

But we will, and then we will belong there, and so will all of you. From the future, we bid you welcome.

–Musa Okwonga

IV. MAYA 2024

Dearly beloved

We are gathered here today

To get through this thing called "life"

Electric word, life

It means forever and that's a mighty long time

But I'm here to tell you there's something else

The afterworld

A world of never ending happiness

You can always see the sun, day or night

So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills

You know the one, Dr. Everything'll-Be-Alright

Instead of asking him how much of your time is left

Ask him how much of your mind, babe

Prince, Let’s Go Crazy

Statement from the future

November 2024

After Facebook’s involvement with multiple elections and insurrections across the globe, it’s not surprising that a website can affect an election, but no one ever saw it coming in the way it happened with MAYAworld.

The story starts in May 2023. People started seeing the concept on TikTok. At first they didn’t quite understand, because they were used to thinking linearly. They had come, on some level, to represent the feeds of content they scrolled through and the feedback loops that urged them to purchase. They had become walking mirrors of commercial algorithms.

MAYAworld promised something different. An infrastructure and interface to surf the web that was not owned by an advertising company, which Google and Meta technically were. Fifty thousand Millennials chose to pay $10 and co-design the prototype as beta testers - what the heck, it was the price of an avocado toast.

At first it was a fun place for the beta testers to plan upcoming events in their lives. But they quickly used it to plan bigger and bigger dreams. Because MAYA was designed so anyone could build the features they needed, specific utilities that served niche groups started popping up and finding an audience. Bedroom coders all over the country started making enough money to live, and stopped dreaming of Silicon Valley.

The biggest breakthrough of the beta test was MAYAmarket. Initially set up as a way to sell plugins and features for the site, it quickly expanded to become a storefront for other things. A plugin that allowed people to ask for exactly what they wanted and be matched to artisans who could produce it became a huge hit. Suddenly people began to see the possibility of a supply chain without waste. A plugin that allowed people to ‘trademark’ ideas in MAYAworld as a proxy license for creative projects spawned trending topics in the outside world, and led to film screenings within MAYAworld. People began to see an alternative to needing intellectual property - they could split the money fairly between the people who had been involved, but also share the profits with those who had inspired the project based on the contributions to the boards. People started to experience living in a different economy, a fairer market. Because they might get to share in the profits of the ideas on the boards, people started being kinder and more thoughtful in their critique.

Once you have experienced something, even for a second, you know it is possible.

The rest is history. When MAYAworld became publicly available it became the fastest “app” to hit 100m users, in 45 days, beating ChatGPT at 60 days.

Big businesses cannot compete because customers are getting exactly what they want at a reasonable price. They are happy to wait a little while for the perfect thing made just for them by a local artisan. Suddenly bespoke isn’t only the preserve of the rich, it is every American’s right.

The MAYAmarket storefront allows players to shop online at traditional e-commerce stores, but the e-tailers have to pay commission to be in the store. Depending on how much tax they evade, the commission is 10-30%. 70m players have decided to shop online only through the storefront, generating huge amounts of profit for MAYAworld, which is being redistributed to players through business grants.

People are finally living the promise of capitalism. A healthy economy that everyone can participate in.

Unsurprisingly MAYAworld has dominated the election newscycle.

Both political parties have found fault with it and the media is full of critique.

But to regular people, it just seems like the politicians are pining for the old days when they could get paid for campaign-complaining without doing a damn thing except lining their own pockets.

But now the players have MAYAworld, so they can be understanding. Political parties and media industries are full of people who left where they came from, in search of a better life in the city. They used politics and media to tell their story of dissatisfaction with their life, and created a world of dissatisfaction. They didn’t know that the best life was already around us, in the people they left behind and didn’t give a chance.

It’s beautiful to see a reversal happening. As players find their people on MAYAworld, boards are becoming the foundations for communes. But unlike the communes of the past, players are integrating into small towns that have been decimated by big business.

Artification not gentrification.

Capitalism for the people.

Americans get to be great again.

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Credits:

Visuals: MAYAgirl #4

Editor: MAYAgirl #67

Sounds: Breakfast with BokBok 16 January 2023

Refreshment: GT’s Synergy Kombucha

Inspiration: Mandarin Cherry Lime Dog & Banana Dog from Rose Los Angeles

Everything else: Dave’s Unstoppable Tour, Jamaica

If you’re interested:

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Join the conversation on Discord

We’re especially interested in meeting:

Indigenous people, artists, and elders, especially combinations of all three.

Tech: Devs who are into MySpace, Obsidian, Zora, Landing Page, Miro, Butter.

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