ENGL 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Continual Improvement Process, Fiat Money

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Literacy self making, building up of knowledge. Franklin became a cultural icon, definitive of early american culture and american thinking. Representative, strange and bizarre in his approach to life and self-identification. Man of credit owes nothing, with a reputation, capable of a public life. Self-irony: e. g chart of virtues, could be sarcastic. Not taking selfhood very seriously, deprecating self, understanding the impossibility of perfection in man. Celebrate american ideas but mocks them in the process as well. Somehow equal to voltaire in status in america. Self-promotion, promotes fiat currency, and then makes the currency himself, hypocritical man. Political consultant , did not support revolutionary ideas, but dedicated to revolution when it happened. Inadvertently fought against theological believes of the natural world. Also a major writer, journalist, public writing of pamphlets and newspapers. Roadmaps for assimilation into american society, american success story, early version of the american dream.

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