And now we enter our fourth phase of addiction
DEPENDENCE
from 1920 to 1968. We’ve allowed a dangerous relationship to develop between the serialization slash monetization of citizens and the centralization of federal authority for imperial conquest.
Our “copy” dating to the “enlightenment” still reads as decent terms of service, for example Teddy the progressive-
that’s the teddy bear guy!
Yes. He was “busting trusts” in the early 20th century to free up competition in the market. But there were still some ugly assumptions underlying the “American Dream.”
Those who claimed the “race importance” between whites and “scattered savage tribes, whose life was but a degree less meaningless, squalid and ferocious than that of wild beasts.”
who was that jackass?
Teddy Roosevelt
but he was so adorable!
The stories we tell ourselves
The same man who fought so hard for nature fought Puerto Rican independence – machine guns in tow – to benefit a color-wheel subset of “civilization.” Replace the color wheel for the cultural one and what’s different this time around?
they don’t dance salsa in the desert
