>>4603Remember in grade school, when you're taught about the pioneers, entrepreneurs, idealists, and adventurers in Europe who decided to leave the Byzantine, oppressive world of order and societal constraint to find a land, uncultivated and unforgiving, to make a life for themselves, without regulation, restriction, or accountability for others, so that they may carve a fruitful and rich life for themselves, and more importantly, their progeny? The eccentric, the misty eyed, the lawless, and those who thirsted for justice and opportunity jumped on cramped, rat infested, tattered old ships for the gold-lined horizon of hope, outside of the system of laws and pacts and procedures, and of conditioning behaviors in the hard-lined old cities of Europe, to leave everything behind and start anew, in a land devoid of settlement and wrought with menace and disease and hardship, just for the chance to live unbound and free?
It's kind of like that.