you used to be able to get tremendous cultural currency online for something as simple as casually letting people know you’d once read a kurt vonnegut book and remembered some words from it. nobody cares about that stuff anymore, though. a shame, maybe. but so it goes.
In many ways, the Constitution was the post hoc desperate attempt by the Founding Fathers to bottle back up the radical promise of the Revolution. The Constitution was the counter-revolution, not the American Revolution itself
Americans discovering that the beauty of football is you get to complain for decades about what might have been if not for that one borderline referee call
The idea that the American Revolution was a nothingburger simply commandeered by rich slavers is about as ridiculous as the idea that the American Revolution was the most wholesome, liberal, and unexpectedly successful revolution in history
She was sleepy and old and on top of that she ran an entitled “how dare you fucking twerps run against me after all I’ve done for you!!!” Campaign so of course she got her shit wreaked.
People make fun, but the fact is that Afro-American culture (with its unique mixins of Scotch-Irish, etc) is an unparalleled force of cultural magnetism.
We have records of plantation owners pulling their hair out watching their sons ape the lingo and mannerisms of slaves!
@ScipioAfr1canus@peterrhague Well exactly. Good or bad doctrine is no more than a minor factor in general good or evil. People believe things. We are not What we believe and do not become "more than ourselves" through what we believe.
@constans I know people who self-identify as tough & strong very insistently yet demand I turn the AC on in my house or car when it's hardly 78 outside. Some addiction to the sensual effect of conditioned air itself seems to be a factor here.
@AlexNowrasteh Your argument depends on authoritarians being able to comprehend norms as things that are made rather than obeyed. You're right, but they just can't get the reasons why. Which of course brings up the "first they came for the trade unionists" aspect for we native born whites...
@pee_buzz@chaandmami Political activism is not inherently prestigious or Special among general human activity in the first place. There is nothing to "water down" there. People making broadly moralish statements in public are not competing against you for True Commitment ipso facto.