In the ethnicity of our nation’s history, the song, ‘The World Turned Upside Down,’ is included! Is it not perhaps time, our nation revisits and rewords this ballad for who we are today?
One remarkable event in this nation’s history we acknowledge is the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. In that historical perspective, the British marched to their surrender with the band playing the march, ‘When the King enjoys His own again.’ Of little knowledge is that the tune was also the melody of the tavern ballad, sung during the royalist rejection of the Puritan rejection of all things—which we could only imagine in this nation—of celebration and Christmas.
Studying this time, or the Rump parliament, and the clash of Cromwell and the Crown, the breaking of the royal monarchy, the death of King Charles, is a history that is nothing but the foundations for the obvious result. That result that there would be a group of Englishmen, who continued the rejection of totalitarian sovereignty of any king, and pope, or anyone who would dominate society without approval of the citizens to be governed. That this nation would be the result was only inevitable. For the colonies of this nation, had already had self-governance, and had created the philosophical idealisms of what this nation’s government policy should be. We in this nation are unfamiliar with this foundation, but you can ‘Google’ it, finding the wonder of ‘the Articles of Confederation.’
This simple ballad—as much in history—became interwoven into the ethnicity of this nation, becoming as one with it. That this nation has an ethnicity is in itself remarkable. I’m always mesmerized by the word ethnicity itself. For it simply means that there is a culture, an identifiable characteristic of a group; as an American. For those who are Americans are a unique ethnicity, for they can come from any other ethnicity, reject—as the singular sentence of the poem by Emma Lazarus’ on the Statue of Liberty—with the only sequel, the only verse of American sense to this nation; ‘Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!’ For it is only by rejecting, and refuting the society of your heritage, and acceptance in our society of such simplicity, liberty and the sanctity of human life. Then and only then, when individually those who come to this nation, become one with this nation, then they are part of our ethnicity an American. Yet in the definition by Merriam-Webster uses this example: a particular ethnic affiliation or group <students of diverse ethnicities>. Is it not strange, that definition? Is it not the exact inverse of what ethnicity is? Is not ethnicity that a society has a culture, has a foundation, their proclaimed mores, morals, and most of all the religion, as Montesquieu identified long, long ago?
Today we experience so many things in this nation that are not of this nation’s culture, or our society, it is difficult to identify the nation or our origins. Looking over the lyrics of the song, ‘The World Turned Upside Down,’ it seemed so appropriate to use it in the context of our nation today. The society of this nation is experiencing a ‘fundamental change’ and a transformation as surely as the world of England experienced when the revolution of this nation separated.
There is one great difference unsurmountable in comparative. In the separation of the United States from England, it was nothing but another, though separate of the reformation of the English experience. The pinnacle of their rejection of totalitarian monarchy, yet different that once accomplished—a philosophy of man’s freedom was born, not the continuation of what was, without a plan, resorting to what was before.
Today there is a plan for this nation’s future. It is the darkest and most demented ideology of social design known to the society of mankind. Proven time after time to fail, to reduce mankind to a society less than animal, where even the species of Homo is rejected. We find this conformation daily in the diatribes of our current president, in the actions of our congress, the decisions of the Supreme Court. We as a nation are so far from the culture and design of our nation’s wonder; to even find any essence of that wondrous exceptionalism, is difficult and so buried in ideologies foreign to our society, as they mirror diametric opposites. One is the liberty and preservation of man, the other the destruction and the domination of man. One with the acknowledgment of man’s creator and natural rights, the other with no more regard to man than but he is animal, regulated to chattel, slavery and serfdom to the power of government.
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Listen to me and you shall hear, news hath not been this thousand year:
Since Wilson, Lincoln, and many more, you never heard the like before.
Holy-dayes are despis'd, new fashions are devis'd.
Old Christmas is kicked out of our nation and town
Yet let's be content, and slaves shall we be, you see the world turn'd upside down.
The wise men did rejoyce to see our Savior Christs Nativity:
The Angels did good tidings bring, the Sheepheards did rejoyce and sing.
Let all honest men, take example by them.
Why should we from good Laws be bound?
Yet let's be content, and slaves we shall be, you see the world turn'd upside down.
Command is given, we must obey, and quite forget old Christmas day:
Kill a theology, or culture and compassion destroy, we will give thanks and praise amain.
The bong will be inhaled, we will hallucinate and think we think.
And visions blurred confused and strange abound.
Yet let's be content, and slaves we shall be, you see the world turn'd upside down.
Our President and congress, and the Supreme Court too, do mean old American principles to forgoe:
They set legislation upon our citizens, for there is no liberty thereat.
They count it a sin, when citizens are heard.
Totalitarianism by power, freedom is drown'd.
Yet let's be content, and slaves we shall be, you see the world turn'd upside down.
The government redistributes our taxes, and debauches our wealth.
The congress out of the way, the feds keep the keys,
The poor old worker, in his account doth look,
Where no wealth still exists, or hope can be found,
Yet let's be content, and slaves we shall be, you see the world turn'd upside down.
To conclude, I'le tell you news that's right, Christmas was kil'd by Engel v. Vitale
Christianity was slain at that same time, the Court had ‘kicked God out of School.’
Likewise then it dies, our philosophy and ideas did too.
No mores, morals or religion no quarter found.
Yet let's be content, and slaves we shall be, you see the world turn'd upside down.
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