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Yag-kosha's avatar

My attempts at Twitter threads, helped give ideas. Hard piece to write because it pleases no one. As an Ellis Islander & Hart-Cellar in the Northeast. It's extremely difficult to not see the Rockwellian America as it is. The new foreign hordes are just like the old ones. Priced in, like the last ones. Rockwellian America grew ontop of the Old America. Like kudzu vines do on trees. It was inevitable due to mass immigration, global trade, and communication increases. The entire world has a bit of it in them even before Rockwellian America then took over that like a Colossus Octopus.

I can't despise what I have been raised in my entire life. But I can be frustrated by it. Rockwellian America was the truest height of human everything, and it's fall will be the lowest low of human everything. I am stuck in the East. At least for now.

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Aspen's avatar

There’s nothing wrong with being Ellis islander truly. A couple of my own ancestors are. The problem is many refuse to be Americans. You are definitely an outlier.

It’s the ugly side of Twitter I despise and the decedence of it.

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Yag-kosha's avatar

The real issue us that the ugly side of Twitter really is divided by those who get what is happening and those that don't. Then those that reveal their stance. There is a reason the Chicanos are touchy with certain points because they know what Anglo America did when it was coalscing into a White American myth to them. Imagine what it do now in a hysterical reaction. What we see on Twitter often is the road to more of that reaction. It isn't guarenteed but just as bad as is the opposite. The one that wants to take Rockwellian America to its other conclusion even further.

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Douglas Fynx's avatar

How do see aridoamerica as the next high culture formatting itself as the national character for the USA? Would it be like the frontier mythos brought to fulfillment? Sound article as always.

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Aspen's avatar

It’d be a lot like the Germanics attempting to act roman and Greek when as those two looked down on the barbarians and then it comes into its own as an evolved descendent of America. We could see much the same with the southwesterners with Rockwellian america and Europe which would be fellah at that point.

The southwest views its history as a slew of various succeeding empires which the us is only one. You could also see it spread east, John David ebert predicts something would come from the west and would.

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Richard C. Cook's avatar

This is one long sneer.

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Aspen's avatar

I make my criticism of Rockwellian America clear constantly. There are some gems in it like Appalachia and the Rural South however. Mable Dodge Luhan, one of the early adopters of the Aridoamerican paradigm called it spiritually bankrupt 100 years ago as well. The culture is incredibly moribund today, unfortunately, and its negatives are teetering on pure insanity. It’s the urban assimilationist culture that makes me want to vomit.

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Faggix's avatar

My prediction is that America? maybe Aridoamerica as you say (will become Red America) “Blue” America I.e will recreate subconsciously the British Empire, with Australia, Canada, UK as it’s extensions. It will try to colonize demographically East Asia. This civilization will blend west Europeans with Asians (East & South)

I have a feeling that Western Europe will actually try to buck American Neo liberalism & will attempt remigration but will be stopped by America. But there will be no migration to Europe to preserve its demographic. Europe will be stuck between an Islamic sphere, American Rockwellian & its own civilization.

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Aspen's avatar

A schism seems likely becuase Rockwellian America can’t impose its will on the place. Not anymore. The things that caused that no longer exist.

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Faggix's avatar

Impose its will on Europe or America you mean?

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Aspen's avatar

Europe + Eastern US + Anglosphere vs Aridoamerica as a schism.

And more the eastern us can’t impose its will on the west anymore.

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