There is something very boring about American exceptionalism (and nationalist exceptionalism narratives in general). To truly buy into it, you kinda have to believe that the rest of the world is a boring backdrop full of NPCs and procedurally generated filler/world-history tropes
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Yes. No one has agency except the US and maybe whomever is the super-Hitler foe of the moment. This exceptionalism rule works equally well in the opposite far left version where the CIA nefariously controls the world including the Super-Hitler du jour
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The American revolution and Constitution were cool given the time period, and the Marshall plan was neat, but otherwise exceptionalism feels like rooting for the winning sports team... Which is no longer winning, and only ever was due to genocide...
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If people got that they aren’t NPCs the world would be a better place all round
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Especially the nationalist exceptionalism in general! The US is just the foremost example.
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Is this an effect of self-enclosed culture?
What I mean is that rest of tye world often imported american movies (and narratives), but americans didn't (up till now) import anything.







