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The Consumation is actually my chromebook's wallpaper
beautiful piece of art by Thomas Cole
who's being consumed in that painting
make this the oh icon @Captain Kirk JT
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lol
HAHA
check this out
it's like this before you hover over it
and then when you hover over it
that's epic
makes server seem special
looks too gimmicky
like some retard is trying too hard
shad
man
>shadman
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This cycle reflects Cole's pessimism, and is often seen as a commentary on Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party. (Note, for instance, the military hero at the centre of "Consummation.") However, some Democrats had a different theory of the course of empire. They saw not a spiral or cycle but a continuing upward trajectory. Levi Woodbury, a Democrat and a justice of the United States Supreme Court, for instance, responded to Cole by saying that there would be no destruction in the United States
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I-I-It won't happen!!!!!
yeah thomas cole was an artistic genius
if you note the small details in each image
painting
you can see the beginning of decadence
in consumation
very strange how profoundly aware of history the founders were and how ignorance had already penetrated the supreme court only a generation later
it's real fuckin good
im hurt
seems like america has been declining since around 1800
but i doubt americans will be able to compute that until at least 200 years from now
@F-Star did you know the founders actually thought that the constitution wouldnt last long
they knew
no they didn't
learned about this when i took AP government
i think it was ben franklin who answered the question of what kind of country are you leaving for us
saying "a republic, if you can keep it"
the idea for the american government has always been to be a republic