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VASSAR BUSHMILLS's avatar

Yep. Been saying that for a long time, we started several hundred years ahead of the world...starting out middle class, not pagan, and following a thin red line, outlined in a book I co-authored with a friend, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GZHFJST/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=unwashed+philosophy&qid=1632578574&sr=8-1

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VASSAR BUSHMILLS's avatar

I think American Exceptionalism is indefinable, Larry, which is why it has been impossible to replicate. In 1860 2.2 young men volunteerd to pu their lives on the line to save 4 million people they had never seen. 600K died. That had never been done in the History of the World, and it has been part of our wiring. We still do it. https://www.vassarbushmills.com/?p=72342

In 1991, in the USSR I gave a toast to Soviet academicians at a BD party, and recited the opening lines to the Declaration of Independence, and they all cried. https://www.vassarbushmills.com/?p=62748 but they recopgnized it.

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Larry Schweikart's avatar

It could happen. You'd need a totally new nation to be born. All the existing ones already missed their chance. They could convert, but even then their DNA would be different. Same with common law. it's a tradition of hundreds of years that needs to take root.

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Larry Schweikart's avatar

Why can't replicate: cuz no other nation has had both common law & bottom up religion from their origin.

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