In history there has been a lot of times when people have being living under an illusion and many of the times this illusion ends disappearing because someone took their time to find out the truth. Throughout history there have been many situations in which people had been lied to by the government in order to get peoples vote on what the government believes in. We start living under an illusion once they talk us into whatever is it that they want and we don't even know they're lying to us because we believe that they won't lie to us because is the government and the government never lie.
An example that happened in history where people had been living under an illusion is "manifest destiny" this is an example of how the government would lie to us whenever they want to get their way. Manifest destiny was a belief made up by the government in the 19th century in the United States making Americans believe that god wanted America to be expanded more to the west. People in America believed the government just because the majority of the people in the 19th century were Christians and they didn’t think more space would of hurt them either. Americans started living under the illusion of manifest destiny and they started expanding America towards the west. A lot of people where killed because of manifest destiny and manifest destiny caused the beginning of some wars.
This illusion “Manifest Destiny” was very sucessful because Americans started expanding towards the west (Pacific Ocean). This is how American started wars with the Native Americans and Mexicans. Yes! Manifest destiny played a huge role in the Mexican war because America wanted to take over the Mexican territory. It was like if they wanted America to be just one world because they were planning on conquering the whole world, the government wanted America to rule the world. This was one illusion put on the people from America by the government.
An example that happened in history where people had been living under an illusion is "manifest destiny" this is an example of how the government would lie to us whenever they want to get their way. Manifest destiny was a belief made up by the government in the 19th century in the United States making Americans believe that god wanted America to be expanded more to the west. People in America believed the government just because the majority of the people in the 19th century were Christians and they didn’t think more space would of hurt them either. Americans started living under the illusion of manifest destiny and they started expanding America towards the west. A lot of people where killed because of manifest destiny and manifest destiny caused the beginning of some wars.
This illusion “Manifest Destiny” was very sucessful because Americans started expanding towards the west (Pacific Ocean). This is how American started wars with the Native Americans and Mexicans. Yes! Manifest destiny played a huge role in the Mexican war because America wanted to take over the Mexican territory. It was like if they wanted America to be just one world because they were planning on conquering the whole world, the government wanted America to rule the world. This was one illusion put on the people from America by the government.
I find it very disappointing how people used to believe that god will want them to do all of this stealing Native American homes and not only taking their homes (Territory) they were taking their lives too. It gets me sad that they even used god as a propaganda towards manifest destiny. This was a perfect example of people living under the an illusion, time passed and then they discovered manifest destiny was a lie and it was just an excuse and that they have being living under an illusion.
VERY interesting choice of an "illusory" moment in the history of the United States--but do you really think that "manifest destiny" is all that dead and buried? Could there be some remnants of it in our foreign policy, for example?
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