This is not exaggeration! Read debate between Alexander and Eisenman—who was so lacking in understanding of humans that the Holocaust memorial he designed has huge 'problem' with people playing in it!
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Why is our music bad? Because we lack common culture and shared context necessary for good art at all—we get lowest common denominator, i in club ay u wan fuc trash, or permanent cultural revolution. Our artists do not see it as their role to *create* the nation...
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We should have national holidays to commemorate heroes of our culture and reinforce their mythology, give public more slack with which to create community; better Brahminate to tend to "memeplex" of nation, ensure feeling of *continuity* with culture that produced these heroes...
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Unfortunately, Irving Kristol and other such small-souled goblins are descriptively right—current myth of America is as political experiment, place people *immigrate to* if they support Ideals of Constitution or whatever.
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This view has many problems! It implies that there is no meaningful or relevant America that was not virgin-birthed from the æther in 1787, and that the most—only!—American thing you can do is produce endless diarrheal flow of partisan gooble-gobble.
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This first point is no accident—many Brahmin theorists of America in 20th century developed their doctrines to CUT US OFF from our history and remake America in their image.
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(Yes, some were Jews, but this is no justification for Anglinite idiocy—we do not hate all the Irish just because of Kennedy shayātīn. And good luck building musical culture without Steve Reich etc.)
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"American experiment" may have made sense when America had agricultural economy and frontier, and was primarily settled by seafaring mercantile Germanics (with a few cotton-growing Normans, hence the war)... but we are grown up and urbanized now, and must accept this.
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Besides, "American experiment", federated constitutional republic and so on, has been so widely adopted that it no longer seems appealing ("Seinfeld effect"), and there is enough unappealing about our politics that many dream of alternatives. Foundation must be solid!
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And American experiment of independence has close "control": Canada. Which has its problems, but is not Qin. The War of Secession must be narrativized in nationalist terms—otherwise it reads as nonsense!
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This does not mean to throw out "American value of freedom"... we are a people of mountain, steppe, and sea! We are not rice farmers! But America (Usonia?) is not simply the Constitution. Nor does it mean le ebic oberthrow gobarmnint XDDD teh, which won't happen.
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Replying to @riyenakshi
I've suddenly come to a deeper respect for the Articles of Confederation.
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