Let's start from the beginning. I do know that I am an only child. I guess to make up for depriving me of siblings, my parents decided to give me a little taste of the world. We would take vacations every summer, but not Disney Land vacations. They'd show me our government in Washington DC, our colonial history in Boston, art in Paris, empire in London. We'd visit uncommon destinations like Norway and Sweden. Maybe it was those vacations, maybe it's something inherent in my personality, maybe everyone is like this, but all I know is that I can't stay in one place.
Even when I'm not traveling, my mind does. I fantasize about what its like to live in obscure places. I try to slither out of my shell and into one thousands of miles away. Any geographic location I haven't heard of immediately gets Google mapped and wikipediaed (that's a verb now). The CIA World Factbook is my bible.
A location carries immense significance. It can be "home", "work", "escape", "ours", "theirs". Settings simultaneously effect us, just as we effect them. This isn't just restricted to the personal level. Agglomerations of beings are just as susceptible to environmental influences. Thus, we've come full circle. Its not just "why was I born here" , but "why was democracy born here and not there", "why is that culture more aggressive than its neighbors".
All events have a setting. My purpose is to foster discussion on what the relationship between that event and its setting is. I hope that via this investigation I can also learn about your settings, while at the same time sharing my own.
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