Definitions: Conqueror > Settler > Immigrant > Refugee > Invader

Jan 29, 2020, 10:47 AM

Definitions: CONQUEROR > SETTLER > IMMIGRANT > REFUGEE > INVADER

by Thomas Beesley?

CONQUEROR: Somebody who risks life and limb to domesticate a primitive territory and people by creating a market order, by the organized application of violence.

SETTLER: somebody who comes when there is nothing, and builds a civilization from it. A pioneer, an adventurer, a conqueror. Productivity, masculinity, ingenuity, fierce independence. Patrician founders, their heirs the rightful inheritors of the nation and a portion of all of the fruits of it’s production by right of establishment.

IMMIGRANT: somebody who comes over long after the work of establishing and building of the civilization has ended and merely reaps the rewards of those who came before. A plebian underclass by nature, at best a person simply looking for opportunity, at worst a parasite looking for a host. Interlopers, opportunists, traveling merchants, unwelcome guests who readily make themselves at home.

My ancestors were not immigrants. They were conquerors and settlers. And they left me and mine our inheritance.

And I am willing to fight to defend that inheritance.