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icon:: 📖 purchased:: Aug 21st, 2023 start:: Aug 21st, 2023 end:: published:: length:: author:: cover:: reading-time:: score:: - Meta - From Books/Your Next 5 Moves - Highlights - And finally, Columbus demanded money—and a lot of it. He insisted on 10 percent ownership of everything he found. #ghostfromthepast - Those who couldn’t afford the ship’s passage rented themselves into “indentured servitude,” a time-limited contract under which, after a certain number of years working the land, they could pay off their debt and eventually become landowners themselves. Two thirds of the indentured servants did eventually become landowners.14 “Land was the principal capital of seventeenth-century America,” and these early American start-up farmers were entrepreneurs. #h1bstory - Religious zeal and entrepreneurial zeal may have different objects but they require the same type of personality. It takes a special kind of person to obsessively pursue a vision, which is what zealots do. #heterodox - Winthrop defined America as a “city on a hill.” America could become a beacon calling all the peoples of the world to God. #immigrants #immigration - A few hundred souls were lost that first winter, but twenty thousand English colonists came to Boston Harbor over the next ten years. Winthrop would build his city of God, and it would thrive just as he had predicted. - #bookAcquired Books/City of God - In his final address before leaving the presidency, Ronald Reagan spoke of the City on the Hill as the central guiding image of his life: America - A city upon hills - “I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life …a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, Godblessed, and teeming with people of all kinds …a city of free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity….” - The idea that America was chosen by God for a special role in his divine plan was as real for Reagan as it was for Winthrop. What does it mean to be an Indian? - By any measure, Americans are still the most religiously fervent people in the developed world. - This virgin continent was seeded by Protestant prophets, and you could say that since that moment of inception, America has been, and perhaps always will be, a messianic nation. - At the very least, “the land is overrun with messiahs,” as nineteenth-century observer Charles Ferguson noted.21 America will never suffer a shortage of people with plans to change the world. #@Elon Musk -