The United States of America is a nation that was built upon the gun. It began as a uniquely American culture that was built on the foundations of manifest destiny, imperialism, and the American Dream. These notions have only ever held true for a small proportion of Americans, namely wealthy white men. Others have also attained these mercurial holy grails, but only in small drops, as the floodgates have always been open exclusively to wealthy white men. For at the same time these ideals that fed into patriotism and being a “good” American were laid as tracks into American earth, the parallel track of the Trail of Tears, slavery, lynching, Jim Crow laws, and systemic racism was also being laid down as a foundation. These twin tracks were both laid down, one of patriotism and the “good” American, and the other of violence and submission, to lead to the almighty gun. Just as various peoples of different faiths worship in a particular direction, the American faith is one that worships in the direction of the gun. This idolatry manifests itself both as an internal culture that has its members in the highest echelons of American power, and as a foreign policy that always aims to use this culture to obtain its interests abroad.
The Militancy and Idolatry of America
The Militancy and Idolatry of America
The Militancy and Idolatry of America
The United States of America is a nation that was built upon the gun. It began as a uniquely American culture that was built on the foundations of manifest destiny, imperialism, and the American Dream. These notions have only ever held true for a small proportion of Americans, namely wealthy white men. Others have also attained these mercurial holy grails, but only in small drops, as the floodgates have always been open exclusively to wealthy white men. For at the same time these ideals that fed into patriotism and being a “good” American were laid as tracks into American earth, the parallel track of the Trail of Tears, slavery, lynching, Jim Crow laws, and systemic racism was also being laid down as a foundation. These twin tracks were both laid down, one of patriotism and the “good” American, and the other of violence and submission, to lead to the almighty gun. Just as various peoples of different faiths worship in a particular direction, the American faith is one that worships in the direction of the gun. This idolatry manifests itself both as an internal culture that has its members in the highest echelons of American power, and as a foreign policy that always aims to use this culture to obtain its interests abroad.