America and Americans
America and Americans
What do you get if you remove America (the idea) from America (the place]? What if you remove American values, enshrined in the Constitution, from American society? Equality, free speech, free belief, the rule of law—what if you take all that away? The obvious answer is Americans—those individual people. But what makes them Americans, establishes their identity as a unified people, not just as the inhabitants of a particular piece of land? Nothing. You destroy America as a distinct identifiable definable nation. That is what is happening now: the essence of America is being hollowed out, leaving nothing but free-ranging individuals. Do you think these deracinated people can form a coherent viable identity? I doubt it. We will have a kind of blind anarchy. Americans will no longer be Americans, but bleached-out wanderers, clueless, lost. What makes America America is the idea of America, but that idea is being undermined from within. The country will die. It will be true to say that America no longer exists.
A few thoughts. The guy who taught the sociological theory course at Penn named Bershady taught us that WWII which he lived through and the recovery from the Depression unified a naturally chaotic or in his words diverse country, The advanced economy and technological infrastructure which Trump is pillaging allows the worst features of centralization and chaos to coincide, it’s not just the American idea but the Federalist System since before the Civil War that is being jettisoned leaving mere chaos behind- for what cause and reason I am not to say.
How about this categorical statement? America is a land of peasant who all act like their Caesars and little ones at that? Homo Americanus Sum!
Egotistical but deeply insecure.