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   Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 01:10:03 JST Nathan Schneider

   I think liberals consistently fail to understand how much US culture is saturated in a cowboy/gangster/disruption ethic that privileges risk over safety and greatness over equity.

   There are virtues to this ethic. But it also comes with a legacy of brutality that is only too visible right now.

   https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/11/22/cowboy-country-inequality-not-bug-its-uniquely-american-strategy

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     Pete Ashton (pete@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 02:26:34 JST Pete Ashton

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     @ntnsndr Thanks for writing this. I think chunks of it could apply to the "longing for days of Empire" mentality in the UK too, as espoused by the likes of Boris Johnson. I've often found it interesting that the heroes of that tribe tend to be explorers (Shackleton, Livinstone, Scott, etc) creating an analogous mythology to the wild west. Plenty to ponder.