/lit/ - Literature

>>14797952
>Frontier Nation: you can have freedom or security (state up your ass for gibs)
It's the worst of everything, for the very reason the hidden hand cannot freely act (2A, the ethos and culture at its core), and has since 1812 at least set itself at the slow enclosure and ratcheting down of those un-enumerated freedoms. "When we are stacked one upon the other as they are in Europe's great cities, we will then gain Europe's problems." -- Jefferson. One doesn't simply Tea Party the largest and most powerful state apparatus ever.

>David Bentley Hart
Faggiest name since William F. Buckley. The Puritan inferority complex Nu Englanders genuflecting at the ruins of European bugmen culture is the most servile, loathsome, slavish subspecies of American, the misbegotten pietistic abortions of the Old Country worshiping cargo cult idols and hallucinations of a tradition they actively admonish and dismantle to build not cathedrals, but aesthetic (equitable) squatter camps.

>"We have re-discovered Americana."—say the The Insulin Resistant, and blinks.

>>14798167
>Only shallow memes that have been pumped into them by the education system and the various media complexes
Overwhelming lies obscuring this geopolitical backwater's role as a playground for foreign agents of every stripe.

>a cohesive "nation" with a cohesive history, identity, and culture is dead and will never be revived in to former form.
Continuity remains contested, and the War Between The States decided little as regards that, with such representative specimens of Yankee hive city life as Hart.

>>14798167
>Holy Roman .... There needs to be a fabric of nation-states, city-states, rural provinces, and whatever other economic and political models work

Goethe to Eckerman largely holds true here,
>"I do not fear that Germany will not be united; our excellent streets and future railroads will do their own. Germany is united in her patriotism and opposition to external enemies. She is united, because the German Taler and Groschen have the same value throughout the entire Empire, and because my suitcase can pass through all thirty-six states without being opened. It is united, because the municipal travel documents of a resident of Weimar are accepted everywhere on a par with the passports of the citizens of her mighty foreign neighbors. With regard to the German states, there is no longer any talk of domestic and foreign lands. Further, Germany is united in the areas of weights and measures, trade and migration, and a hundred similar things which I neither can nor wish to mention."
>"One is mistaken, however, if one thinks that Germany's unity should be expressed in the form of one large capital city, and that this great city might benefit the masses in the same way that it might benefit the development of a few outstanding individuals,"

>>14798258
>these people don't have an identity
Retrograde assimilation is happening much harder across the Atlantic.

>>13980029
Get the David Bentley Hart version of the New Testament for tr00 metaphysical depth