the essence of the american spirit is conflating sex and money with every other good thing
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lol i get that this is not exactly a new original thought but it struck me during a DM convo
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oh i mean
Walt Whitman did think about this stuff but i was mostly using his image as someone deeply in touch w/ the deeper soul of America, to object to calling our flaws our essence
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America will overcome itself 😤
We're just getting started
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ah gotcha. i do think there is something beautiful in the american spirit i can identify with. something about the spirit of rebellion and innovation
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There's so much to be said for America.
The grandeur of the land, the will to connect - the sociability! The tendency to extremes, the ambition and the rugged homeliness, the rockets, the isolationism, the imperialism, the cross country drives
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youtube.com/watch?v=-JwmIB
Something about this really speaks to my belief in America, something transcendent, immaterial but present in the lowliest places - "the spiritual constitution"
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