From Eric Walberg -
A quick history of the American story/ epic/ saga is:
*20,000 years of tribal hunter gatherers, in harmony with nature,
*settler colonialism, i.e., war, theft, genocide,
*declaration of bourgeois revolution promising life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (scaled back to life, liberty and private property in the constitution),
*2 centuries of wild, uncontrolled, ‘creative destruction’, using and discarding resources at an insane pace, blanketing the continent in square grids of endless roads, cookie-cutter suburbs, cities turning into ghost towns, arriving at
*a car-choked dead end, where the threat of nuclear war and environmental Armageddon loom ever closer.
Source - https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/07/needed-urgently-new-us-national-myth/
You know, he's not far from right. And we urgently need a new national mythos, because the existing one is being shredded before our very eyes. I liked the old one, but now I'm in the minority.
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