American Conflict and the reason for it Transcendentalism

Coming to US, to acountry which is so succesufl and embolimnet of sceintific advancement I could never understand many social contradiction.

• Creationism - maybe the only developed country which has it
• Absetinism and Religious Dogmatism which seems to be here
• Yet the brithplace of greatest radical and rational thoughs. Ideas like Lesbiansim, Feminism, Great Sceintific discoveries, anti-classist yet it might be the only country where Sceince is not taught to that high degree with high degree of anti-darwansim.
• Birhtplace of Nature conservationism in 18th century. One of the most original ideal that America has put forth.Correctly said by Ken Burn's as America's Best Idea. THough in 20th Century it might seem it completely rational but in 18th century in the midst of industrial revoultion it was completely ir-rational. Why do you stop the felling of wooods when you and your country needs to become an even powerful country. Remember it was the days when London had the most horrible smogs and yet London was considered the best palce to be.
• ( place which has among the harsest punishment for drugs - yet has the biggest user per capital, usage of drugs)
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I suppose both of these could be accounted by how America was founded and it rare philosophy that it brought out. American founding had a strong Puritian roots, the so called Great Migration but it was this belief of anti-class (most immigrant came t oAmerica because of religious intolerane and poverty in the old world).lead to development of philospohy of Transcedentalism and Pragmatism (which funily also somehow contradict themselves as Transcedentalism has the element of spirits over rational thought yet Pragmatism puts higher credence to rationalism).  
Transcedentalism certainly brings the nature conservationism to its hight. John Muir ceratinl is the epitome of that era and completely captures that ideal. His inspiration of nature and in nature he saw God. Yosemite's Moluntain as Cathedrals. But in a sense it also leads to experince having a focus rather than pure rationalility. The central idea of Transcedentalism.

So though in the same way that same Puritian idealogy gave rise to it, the same Transcedentalism also gives rise to religious dogmas of Creationism and anti-abortion. John Muir's fasination for nature was against extreme religious push, but still hsi belif in theism was refelcted in nature. So the imporatnce of spirit over rationality is brought up in this philosophy.