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The myth is the central symbol around which what some people call american exceptionalism has been organized around the frontier that meant on the myth and the land the Frontier West came to symbolize a certain attribute to identity that think about the United States unlike other nations has the ability and the election read to use expansion that was built into well before the frontier in the late 19th century became the symbol of expansion the social experience to move one is foundational to us identity. No other nation has been so able to organize domestic politics through the actual reality of expansion and then increasingly the mythology to point to the frontier and respond to social problems with limitless and endless growth in these were the foundational premise of the United States and the founding fathers. And those only for the declaration of independence wasnt just add natural right that the condition of all natural rights. And what is his saxon ancestors to escape germany an
A lot of people stick their careers on the exactopposite, that we are all part of the universal human family and if youve written three books like that , so what sets these causes is of course the anxiety of antagonism and this is the last point ill before i close on the question because the anxiety of antagonism is something that its interesting to me as i travel the world. I have had to deal with the anxiety of antagonism in teaching young people in the United States in germany or in south africa and that is the anxiety of being presented with a problem for which theres no imaginable solution even though if there is a solution it cannot be theorized at this moment so the anxiety of antagonism produces responses which are redundant and unread and emotional rather than analytic. That has a lot to do with the work in 1869, he changed the British Public School System and one of the things he did, he said we cant be teaching but people in the Public Schools columns that dont have solution
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