At this time of the year, we Americans traditionally pause to give thanks for our many blessings. This includes such things such as a voluminous variety of victuals, more televised football games than any nation on the planet, and the fact that we won’t have to endure another election for another two years.
As we know, our Thanksgiving tradition was begun by the Pilgrims. This small, scrappy group of entrepreneurs wanted to establish a new society that had its own quirky set of rules such as, “Thou shalt not yelleth at thy neighbor’s dog upon the Sabbath, unless the cur be caught digging in thine flowerbed in which case it shall be deemed acceptable to hurl vociferous imprecations, but only those that have to do with the mutt’s most recent ancestry.”
In essence, the Pilgrims were a 17thcentury version of a social media start-up. But in their rush to create something new and cutting-edge, the Pilgrims …