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Nov 24, 2021
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Friends,

I hope this finds you well. Today we’ll be pausing for a special edition of our newsletter, and tomorrow we’ll be taking a break in observance of American Thanksgiving. (We’ll be back Friday with the next and final installment of our crash course series!)

In true TPP fashion, I wanted to take us down the rabbit hole that is American Thanksgiving and understand why it is celebrated, what historical events inspired it, and the power of myth and philosophical persuasion to unite a people.

Let’s dig in!

Background Events

You really can’t understand this holiday without looking to two important factors: protestant fundamentalism and agrarian-dependent lifestyles.

The story begins with a group of protestant fundamentalist from Europe who fled oppression in their home countries for the relative safety of the Americas. It seems that intolerance was was their greatest moral crisis—a trait which not only caused them to flee Europe but nearly cost them their lives in North America.

Their…

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