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The "American tradition" is that of radicalism and revolution--of rejecting tradition as thoroughly as possible. Amnats, you have NO idea how deep the rot goes. Let us take a simple example, just the tip of the iceberg:
The Americanization (Americanisation?) of spelling.
The Americanization (Americanisation?) of spelling.
One of the biggest problems non-English speakers face with the language is the bizarre spellings. Drought? Ought? Rough? Bough? Why the f--k do these sound different? A: because they're archaic survivals. Anglos, for all their rootlessness, speak a highly conservative language.
The idiomatic and illiteral spellings of English words enshrine within them a history, and while the Anglo is a mishmash of radical and reactionary (see our chat with @Dick71224996 on this) his language is one of the Anglo's deep connections to the past, to the soil, to the volk.
Enter Noah Webster (of Webster's Dictionary). His attempt to pare down American English to literal spellings, to "Americanize" it, is an unconscious attempt to dehistoricize the language (thus the conceptual framework) of America. No wonder it spawned progressivism.
America is not just a young country, it is the "forever young" country, the stunted country, the country of arrested development. And not by no fault of its own, but purposefully so; this is baked into the cake, the recipe of which cannot be excused by saying it wasn't followed.
This is NOT a slight against Americans; the West as a whole suffers the same blight--anti-American counter-signalling is always framed within American principles. The point is to BREAK THAT FRAME, not to restore its most consistent and coherent form and then wonder whence antifa.
Ayn Rand isn't right about much, but she was right when she said that the founding fathers weren't conservatives, but radicals who broke with all tradition--whigs, all of them. To go back to that is to be a reactionary whig. And in the words of Nick Land, what the hell is that?
P.S. here's the aforementioned chat with Joel about the Eternal Anglo:
I can already hear @fashyzizek's teeth grinding.
I can already hear @fashyzizek's teeth grinding.
