These folks lost all legitimacy with me as soon as they revealed their absolute insanity by including pronouns in the closing signature. But I still appreciate this real email I got today.
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“Hi The Practical Woodsman Team,
“I hope you're doing well!
“My name is Vineet, and I'm the Founder of MillionPodcasts. I'm excited to share that your podcast, The Practical Woodsman, has been recognized as one of the Top 45 Survival Podcasts on the web by our panel.
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The school textbooks tell you the settlers crossed the Atlantic for religious freedom.
Some of them did, partly. What the textbooks leave out is the thing that sits in the actual letters, in the sailors' accounts, in the merchant pamphlets circulating in English ports from the 1580s onwards: a major reason people came to America was the wild game. Meat you could take. Meat nobody owned. Meat that walked into camp.
For a population legally separated from the animal for five hundred years, this was the whole pitch.
Consider what they were leaving.
A family in a Devon cottage in 1618 eats pottage. Oats, barley, an onion, whatever greens grew near the back door. No meat in it this week. No meat in it last week. There will be meat in it on Christmas Day, God willing, if the chicken is still alive by then. The deer in the forest at the end of the lane have been the king's property under the Forest Laws since 1066. Taking one is a hanging offence. The father has never taken one. His father never took one. The institutional...
