Maybe the Most Important Day of all?

Honoring An Age of Exploration

John Fraim

“This day should be honored so much. It was the age of great explorer’s.” 

Radio show host

Impressions / McCoy Tyner

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The exploration of people like Christopher Columbus in an age of he defined by exploration. The discovery of America in the age of exploration.

Few consider giving hero status to a great explorer. So easy to dismiss by so many today. Yet such an important part of the American culture. 

Especially when one thinks not just about the meaning but also the direction movement of global culture. From the East to the West. In effect, the symbolic dynamic birth of global culture in the (feminine) East and its movement in the western direction to create growth of global (masculine) culture in the West.

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The dynamics of the documented historic growth of global culture. From its birth in the East and its growth in the West. A global movement from east to west. A direction of culture in western direction based on current news. 

America holds a symbolic importance in world history. It is the final movement of the global culture from East to West. (Yes, this global movement might have stopped on the beaches of southern California.) This is one of the reasons that makes Frederic Jackson Turners’ “Frontier Thesis” one of the best applied to western American movement as worthy of great importance in American history.

The Frontier Thesis, also known as Turner’s Thesis or American frontierism, is the argument by historian Turner’s Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that the settlement and colonization of the rugged American frontier was decisive in forming the culture of American democracy and distinguishing it from European nations. He stressed the process of “winning a wilderness” to extend the frontier line further for U.S. colonization, and the impact this had on pioneer culture and character. Turner’s text takes the ideas behind Manifest Destiny and uses them to explain how American culture came to be. The features of this unique American culture included democracy, egalitarianism, uninterest in bourgeois or high culture, and an ever-present potential for violence. “American democracy was born of no theorist’s dream; it was not carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. It came out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier,” wrote Turner.

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America was founded by Christopher Columbus. Here’s to the city named after the founder of America. Columbus, Ohio.  I’m living in on this Columbus Day of 2025.

As well as movement of culture from its birth in the East and movement west to create a culture of the West. The two great symbols in the world today in Masculine and Feminine archetypes.

This great battle somewhat involved with the general movement of overall global culture in its eastern to western direction evidenced by most historical sources.

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Stopped on the America west coast. Washington. Oregon. Or my home state of California. On those beaches my brother, sister and I grew up on.

World cultural growth has this linear growth direction to it it seems to me so that the Eastern and Western cultures have developed their own symbols. I wrote about the global battle of symbols right after the most obvious example of this battle in history: right after 9/11/01.

Our global culture has its own life it seems to me. It was born in the feminine East and moved in a continuous western direction. All of this beginning of a new growth cycle of culture? Or, maintenance for a while at a particular perspective of the world?