Asked my students last night to look at the United States in the 1780s and discuss what the Revolution had changed and what it had not changed. One group came up with the perfect analogy.
Say you are living in your mom’s basement and you have to pay rent and you don’t have a job and mom is laying all these rules on you. Life sucks. Then you have a dispute and mom moves out of the house. But you still have to pay rent, you still don’t have a job, you still live in the basement, and you might move into the main house, but you can’t get your shit act together to do that. Life still sucks.
Absolutely perfect. Who needs Gordon Wood when you’ve got community college students!
(This post is for the purpose of procrastination on my part, but I really, really, want to get back into this blog thing. We'll see.)