People like Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager are really hammering the “America is an idea” theory lie lately. Likely due to the war in Israel.
This is the belief that any person can simply move here and adopt “our beliefs” (by whatever standards they set) and become a true-blooded American. It’s also derisively called the Magic Dirt theory, because apparently our dirt can magically transform a person into a different nation group.
The problem is, for people like Shapiro and Prager, they have an actual nation-state led by their own real ethnic that they can flee to if our “idea” over here doesn’t work out too well.
They would never say this about Israel. You see, their people are a people. They can’t be an idea.
Meanwhile, they’ve taken my people and reduced our land to a mere “idea”.
To them, everyone has their own nation, besides European and Americans, apparently. We’re just a stomping ground of flesh-wearing ideas.
This occurs as we’re being overrun by every other nation, largely at the encouragement of their home nation Israel. But unlike them, we have nowhere to run to. We can’t flee to our home nation, because this is it. It’s just been corrupted beyond measure by these folks.
People like them and our own traitors have made our home nation-state into a free-for-all economic zone where all that matters is supposed “ideology.”
Which is an outright lie: Every nation is by blood. Ours is no different.
If these people like the idea so much, I challenge Prager and Shapiro to encourage Israel to also become one big great “idea”, and install some magic dirt themselves so the Palestinians can suddenly become Israelis so long as they adopt the ideology. Then the hostilities and differences in the Middle East would magically resolve, just like they say happens over here with mixing nation groups.
Oh, and they can also take in the world’s immigrants instead of us for a few decades. Israel is a nation of immigrants, after all. That policy approach will surely help their melting pot of ideas.
At the same time, they can take their hands off of my own nation. Because they’ll have their own thriving “idea” over there instead.
For us Americans, I think we have all had enough of our personhood and land being reduced to a mere idea, and we’d like our humanity back.
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Propositions and social constructs.
I had a Christian friend who was a medical professional. I asked him if he’d ever read Luther’s ‘On the Jews and Their Lies’. He said he had, and thought it was awful.
He doesn’t talk to me anymore.
“Personhood” ?
Well stated!!
To whom much is given, much is expected….
Jeremy and Big Ben from Daily Wire should go to Israel and fight for their own homeland. Dual citizenship should not be allowed. Anyone who cares about The Middle East can start a fundraiser for Israel on go fund me. We shouldn’t have to pay for the defense of New Kazaria.
Ah, the old Proposition Nation nonsense again. It’s been around for many decades, and it never goes away. Ask any seventh or eighth grader who attends American government schools (and a host of private and home schools t’boot) the question, “what is an American?,” and I’ll guarantee you some version (his or her version) of the indoctrination in the principles of Proposition Nation ideology (s)he has been receiving in the “education” institution(s) in question (to say nothing of the churches and “Sunday Schools” a lot of these same kids attend) will begin to spew from their lips in answer. I’ve personally demonstrated this to several parents of such children over the years who somehow got it in their simple heads that the school(s) their children attend rarely if ever even broach the subject of “what is an American?” or “what makes an American?” with their students. This is one among several reasons I long ago embraced the motto William James is usually accredited with stating. To wit:
“There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.”
The Ben Shapiros, the Dennis Pragers, and the David French’s of the world must understand, at some level, the absurdity of the Proposition Nationhood doctrine they espouse. They also understand that its principles must be repeated continuously and often for people to continue to believe and embrace such an absurdity. That’s why they’ve infiltrated and systematically taken over the institutions above-mentioned to do the dirty work for them while they are necessarily preoccupied with other matters.
Good article, sir.