I'm still thinking about how there are Prepper magazines (i.e., firearms sales brochures peppered with tips on making homemade soap) in places like the Union Station, DC @Hudson_News.
That level of demand is terrifying.
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Replying to @generativist @Hudson_News
Really, it's demand for terra nullius or living space
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Replying to @bprehn219 @Hudson_News
I had to look that up, but yes, that definitely seems like a component.
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Replying to @generativist @Hudson_News
Have you heard of Turner's frontier hypothesis?
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Replying to @bprehn219 @Hudson_News
I have not.
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Replying to @generativist @Hudson_News
OOOOOOH! Seem like just the sort of thing that would be right up your alley. Distilled, it's the idea that our exposure to the frontier is what shaped our development as a nation.
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I bought into it for a long time -- learned about it as a child (~8th grade) -- as an explanation for the "rugged individualism" and obsession with bootstraps that dominates our politics
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I think it's still useful, just not in the sense Turner meant. Henry Turner Nash deconstructed it wonderfully in ~1950~ and I am pretty sad to say I only learned of it in the last year or so. See "The Frontier Hypothesis and the Myth of the West"
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