4th of july thoughts condensed revolutionary war was a terrible idea ex ante america is a lovely floating signifier and its crazy to try to burn it down pls stop if you are doing this battle hymn of the republic is the real national anthem send tweet
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old examples off the top of my head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCnEAH5wCzo … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s … peter fonda's regalia in easy rider
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but I think it's something analogous to rebellions in (eg) old countries where the rebels would frequently fight to "free the king from the clutches of his wicked counselors" or (maybe? sketchy) compare China's the Mandate of Heaven speaking of whichhttps://twitter.com/turrible_tao/status/796225851444658176 …
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hahaha and of course megan mcardle wrote a column about this, why do I even bother tweetinghttps://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1014496999356461056 …
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ok new thought after playing Crusader Kings 2 a bit and mulling over some news from Byzantium I think I am most objecting to American _Iconoclasts_ explicitly I don't think burning flags or attacking our dear Founders or whatever should be illegal! however . . .
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per above these things have important value as signals and I deeply object, socially, to their routine denigration we live in a society . . . which mostly works better with some common floating signifiers and What America [is] About are the best extant signifiers I know of
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I would be happy to embrace some new, better icons but at a national level I don't think we have any good replacement set at the moment idk lack conviction and drown the ceremony of innocence at our collective risk I guess
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I really appreciated the one on the right honestly, I don't care much for Movements of any flavor but I am grateful when they tip their hat at the meta level
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Gramsci march through institutions happened? And results blossomed with a generation that went through the pipeline? Dunno.
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I worry that this is the case :(
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The original protest is buttressed off the original definitions, which is usually broad enough to accommodate disagreement. Post-protest protest is too far removed (intellectually) to achieve synthesis. A problem for hegel?
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Hegel are you tired because you've been running through my mind all day
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Fall of Communist Bloc.
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USSR was paying for a lot of counterculture stuff. Had to stay associated with America, claim "we're real Americans" or be associated with the enemy. Now their harvest has come, nobody cares about America except hard right wing who always were and always will be their enemies.
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No external Commie threat to worry about being lumped in with - ironically Trumpists are now smeared by association with Russia. Somewhere Kruschev laughs and laughs.
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Everybody else believes America irredeemably evil, gives social cachet to find it distasteful. "And thus men laid, centuries ago, the foundation for all our feral subway yoofs."
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Also ironic that BTFSTTG radicals and mainstream leftists both have the same evaluation of the situation. Accelerationism may bridge the broadest if gaps in the end.
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Apple's autocorrect can also bite me, I fixed that "if" and it put it back with a lag so I didn't see it the second time.
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I think it's equal parts distrust and disempowerment leading to feeling separate from country, as well as mediation making everything less real
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Iraq is an interesting idea as well, our latest flag peak was shortly after 9-11, maybe now that seems like paranoid fervor
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In any case all sides fight desperately over who's Americanest so I'm not too worried
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