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America the Beautiful is (mostly) an Array of Layered Fictions and Malignant Lies.

The actual history, situation, motivations and behaviors of the clusterfuck of insanity we call a nation is nothing like the superficial fictions and delusions that many of us think and believe. I here engage in a bit of a rant about this fact, its foundations, histories, suppositions… and seeing through them.

This isn’t the »only thing that’s going on around here… there are amazing people, organizations, motivations… and examples of intelligence, humanity and nobility… but it’s a central organizing principle that can easily eclipse any attempts to intervene or redirect it at the broader scales.

The fact that it’s ‘one of the best nations to live in’ is a lot like saying it’s ‘one of the best prisons’ to be incarcerated in…