Imo generell das Problem mit der Analysekategorie "Generation"

about the country he serenaded: “Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.” Truly I’m not sure. I will keep watching the thing, and if I find fault with Burn’s choices, I know I will prefer his take a thousand times over the MAGA slop about 1776 oozing our way. /end

impossibility of synthesis (and redemption for the white nationalist project) if we take the settler colonial roots of the US seriously (and not just use them as window dressing when convenient). Of an earnest attempt at making viewers embrace what Walt Whitman said about himself and by extension…/3

This is beautifully done, tbh, and I’d be damned to judge the entire thing at this point. Yet I wonder whether what I just saw serves as a metaphor of sorts. Of Burns trying to salvage the remnants of liberal centrism as we prepare for another round of the culture wars in #USA250. Of the… /2

Youngstown, Ohio.

Chapter 5 of my own book No Country for Old Age. Read up on Lothrop Stoddard and Harry Laughlin.

Die gute alte „neue bürgerliche Politik“

Deutschland, aber normal. Der AfD-Slogan für die Bundestagswahl 2021.