amorphous_constellation
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I apologize, for at this time I am overtired, as a 3rd shift blue-collar worker - so maybe this thread is kinda dumb. Anyway, I notice that our leaders like to use the term 'the american people' over and over. They will often say this term, and then describe what these people want, or tag on a specific policy that will affect these people in some way. However, we can see that this body of people does not appear to agree with everything that specific leaders say, nor does it 'seem' to unanimously have the qualities that are broadly attributed to them. But when a politician says something about the 'the american people,' they always say broad things about them, and these things actually hold
So I guess that's partly why it seems like 'the american people' seems like an enigmatic phrase. People can say a great span of things about them, because they actually will absorb those qualities, they seem as a magical people in that way. In having no specific culture, no specific mode of thinking, no central face, they become sort of A.I.-like, like a set of dials that can be tuned up and down. And maybe that's what is supposed to make america 'great.' If the people are abstract enough, they are a blackhole for any ideas the politicians throw at them. The hope is that they eventually evolve into a sort of ideogenous chimera, which emerges from this hole. If you can wait long enough for it to develop into that
So I guess that's partly why it seems like 'the american people' seems like an enigmatic phrase. People can say a great span of things about them, because they actually will absorb those qualities, they seem as a magical people in that way. In having no specific culture, no specific mode of thinking, no central face, they become sort of A.I.-like, like a set of dials that can be tuned up and down. And maybe that's what is supposed to make america 'great.' If the people are abstract enough, they are a blackhole for any ideas the politicians throw at them. The hope is that they eventually evolve into a sort of ideogenous chimera, which emerges from this hole. If you can wait long enough for it to develop into that
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