tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38477122.post1945102194863285474..comments2023-04-11T08:21:41.774-05:00Comments on Echoes in Eternity: American Exceptionalism?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38477122.post-27677817474727002722010-02-25T12:51:40.610-06:002010-02-25T12:51:40.610-06:00Great article. I've been saying this stuff for...Great article. I've been saying this stuff for years now. But I think, and the author alluded to this thought, that this American exceptionalism is getting worse and is becoming cultic. It happened after 9/11, when politicians saw fit to capitalize on the new PATRIOTism. At that time, if you will recall, it became extremely taboo for anyone to question any decision the president made, and such criticisms were often deemed unAmerican with little regard to the historically American value of dissent. But this was different. It was "war". But I digress...again. <br /><br />Before I tell you where I think this is heading, I will invoke a quote from the author: "This exceptionalism talk really needs to expire with a low gurgle." Well, he is right that it needs to expire, but watch HOW it expires, or rather how IT IS EXPIRING. Its expiration began with the creation of a national sense of fear and a newly defined Americanism (PATRIOT Act, anyone?). As a result Americans are turning inward. First the enemy was al Qaeda (al-CIA-da), but inevitably the enemy would become us and now it has. Any real American political movement - protests against taxation, movements toward states rights and a general revival of our Constitutional republic and Constitutional issuance of currency, etc. - have been branded as a threat to national security (more like establishment security), with the government going so far as to use the US military and various other government bodies to gather intelligence on American citizens. Yes, the US Army monitors the "End the Fed" protests. (If you don't know what NORTHCOM is, you need to find out.) <br /><br />How is this contributing to the expiration of American exceptionalism? It is but one means whereby American identity is being eroded to such a degree that only the criminally insane will continue to tout this philosophy when Martial Law becomes more apparent. Eventually America will become such a depressed state - morally, politically, economically - that its citizens will willingly integrate into the "global community" and relinquish any nostalgic sense of country. We will then be American in name only, if at all.<br /><br />In short, American exceptionism is setting up for a very humbling fall of the republic. Because pride goeth before ____. A haughty spirit before____.Chris Anoreply@blogger.com