All for One, or One for All

The third chapter of this book, starts off very different than the beginning of the rest of the chapters. In this introduction McKibben reflects upon the past history of our country, and the challenges that our people have had to face over the last five hundred years. He writes about all of the challenges that we have had to face and how we got through them. This is a very pivotal point in the novel because not only is he reflecting on the past, but he is looking forward toward the future. "The story of the last five hundred years is the story of continual emancipation. The people of the modern world have freed themselves from innumerable oppressions: absolute monarchy, feudalism, serfdom, slavery" (McKibben 95). I most definitely agree with McKibben throughout this section in the book. He makes very good points about how much has changed over the past five hundred years, and how much is still to be changed, like parts of our economy.