Why Nationalism?

[mburbank]

I'm going to need you to define this brief post civil war pre 1890 American identity. A.) I still haven't heard you say what all that would be, and B.) Why would our National Character during this brief historic window, whatever it may have been, be our true national character as opposed to any of the other, longer held charcateristics before and after?

If you want to argue someplace like Korea, with a history thousands of years old, truly has a national charcater, I think the content might be debatable, but the idea that there might be one is pretty solid.

I think you have a severe case of identity anxiety.

"I hate the excuses they give for promiscuous sex, drug abuse, homosexuality, etc. ad nauseum. the ideology is of the weak."

Okay. I hate the excuses you give for alchohol abuse and public brawling. You romanticize them and paint them with Frank Frazetta's air brush. The ideology of the hooligan. Plus, you let a dog lick your weiner. What the hell is wrong with you? That's not what animal husbandry is, 4H Dropout, and it's NOT what peanut butter is for. George Washington Carver is going to rie from the grave and beat your face in, which you'll probably videotape and put on the web.