Narrative Warfare: Imperial America Is Not A 20th Century Creation

The Excellence of Elocution cut an hour-long rant, with chapters, on the Myth of The Liberator.

What Razorfist explains is that, far from being America's greatest President, he was the man that formed the first iteration of Imperial America.

The lasting impact is summarized thus: Before the American Civil War, Americans said "I am a (State), part of these United States" and after they said "I am an American of the United States."

The 14th Amendment and the Act of 1871 would give teeth to those changes, and not just in the manners explained by the current Thralls in the government schooling system (itself an import of Prussia's system, intended to turn children into industrial age cogs that follow orders without question) that came to dominate after the war.

Today's Globohomo has predecessors. This is one of them, and those predecessors would blend together over the World Wars to become the globa imperial power that it is now.

Note to my fellow Americans: Razorfist is right that our native divide is Jefferson v Hamilton. We're split over subsidiarity first and foremost, and it is obvious now that even putting primary onus on the several States is still too centralizing; we must insist upon further decentralization, ultimately down to the (extended, not nuclear) Family (and its Patriarch as Head of State), vested permanently and irrevocably on a self-sufficient Homestead. That is the heart of the American Nation-State, the Family Homestead.

There's more to the American context than this, but Razorfist hits on the load-bearing pillar. That Lincoln is remembered as a great liberator is an example of long-form and short-form Narrative Warfare, across the spectrum, at work. Take heed, folks, and remember this going forward; mythology can be weaponized- and Lincoln did it first, to the American nation.

Empire relies on control over mythology because myth is part of relgion, which generates culture, which turns into politics, which is power put into practice.

You know the high ground now. Seize it, and Empire falls.