A product of the post-Revolutionary era 1787-1824 that set the stage for Jacksonian democracy. Socially it was an ascendancy of Scots-Irish yeomen artisans, small farmers and “independent” men. Property qualifications for vote fell away, north abolished slavery, 1812 war fever
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I guessed as much. The interesting thing is that I see versions of that idea in black culture too. It's a minority tradition (Luke Cage? James Baldwin...?). A tendency to judge structural iniquities by a gold standard of the *average* human rather than the *exceptional* human
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Mormonism?
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That’s just Christianity with Utah features
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A sociologist once told me that ‘fair play’ is the DNA of America which is why nothing riles up the masses like demagogues who scream ‘the game is rigged against you’
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Also Mormonism and Objectivism
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That and psychotic optimism.
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Mormonism, Scientology..
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The singularity
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