> America seems as if it represents something new, or perhaps

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> America seems as if it represents something new, or perhaps eternally valid: Life, Liberty, and other fine words. In truth, it just represents intellectual abstractions long ago left behind by Europe. Now these abstractions return for a brief while to tyrannize over the world, but every day shows more just how false and hollow they are. Americans think the excellence of their governmental model is shown by how long it has continued: rather this demonstrates its total backwardness and the ignorance of the Americans. Finally it also ensures the system is doomed. America can no longer imagine a change in its governmental system, something highly obvious for its Founders (who changed the laws from those of the British to the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution). Instead it continues along in a world that has totally passed by classical Liberalism, indeed that has refuted it. So America today is really not at all like the government described in the Constitution, even as it functioned in its first few decades. It is a bureaucratic monster with a global tyranny run in the shadows by bankers and the military, hiding behind a piece of paper that means nothing. Until the very end of Rome as well, there was a Senate and various rights guaranteed to Roman citizens, but any real historian could see these had been completely hollowed out in the last few centuries of Roman life. Americans are simply too witless to see that there will be people living in America, just as they did in Italy after the collapse, while Americans will have disappeared, just as did the people known as Romans. The life of a people is first and fore- most its spiritual life; the American spiritual life is based on total nothingness, and is already far along on the process of its own self-destruction.
>-- Whitherburo: Applied Metaphysics

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