Elixir
Made in America
Oh my. Sounds magnificent.
One idea I do like, being an originalist and all (if we can make it retroactive), Is the revered tradition of electing a male leader and then, if the plagues visit the land, or the rains don't come, the high priestess throws that leader into the bog.
Here's a funny/sad glimpse into the truly deluded nature of the New Republican Vision:
One idea I do like, being an originalist and all (if we can make it retroactive), Is the revered tradition of electing a male leader and then, if the plagues visit the land, or the rains don't come, the high priestess throws that leader into the bog.
Here's a funny/sad glimpse into the truly deluded nature of the New Republican Vision:
Rebecca Solnit
Rebranded white supremacy is blathering about Anglo-Saxons as it seeks to form an "America First" caucus. The Anglo-Saxons were invaders. Of Britain. Their heyday was known as the Dark Ages. The America First proclamation today: "America is a nation with a border, and a culture, strengthened by a common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions." Which Anglo-Saxon political traditions would they like to protect? Wikipedia: "An important racial belief system in late 19th- and early 20th-century British and US thought advanced the argument that the civilization of English-speaking nations was superior to that of any other nations because of racial traits and characteristics inherited from the Anglo-Saxon invaders of Britain."
But the actual Anglo-Saxons? History site: "When the Roman legions left Britain, the Germanic-speaking Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians began to arrive – at first in small invading parties, but soon in increasing numbers. Initially they met little firm resistance from the relatively defenceless inhabitants of Britannia. Around 500 AD, however, the invaders were resisted fiercely by the Romano-British, who might have been led by King Arthur, if he existed – and there is no hard evidence that he did.
"The Celtic areas of Britain regarded the Saxons as enemies and foreigners on their borders: their name became Sassenachs to the Scottish and Saesneg to the Welsh. The various Anglo-Saxon groups settled in different areas of the country. They formed several kingdoms, often changing, and constantly at war with one another..... By 650 AD there were seven separate kingdoms."
Apparently these would-be Anglo-Saxons did not get As in English. The manifesto leaked today is full of sentences that amble all over the place: "The America First Caucus will work towards an infrastructure that reflects the architectural, engineering and aesthetic value that befits the progeny of European architecture, whereby public infrastructure must be utilitarian as well as stunningly, classically beautiful, befitting a world power and source of freedom."
Anglo-Saxon architecture: build wattle-and-daub pig pens? Thatch the White House? Wikipedia: "Anglo-Saxon secular buildings were normally rectangular post built structures, where timber posts were driven into the ground to form the framework of the walls upon which the thatched roofs were constructed. Only ten of the hundreds of settlement sites that have been excavated in England from this period have revealed masonry domestic structures and confined to a few quite specific contexts. The usual explanation for the tendency of Anglo–Saxons to build in timber is one of technological inferiority or incompetence. Even the elite had simple buildings, with a central fire and a hole in the roof to let the smoke escape and the largest of which rarely had more than one floor, and one room."
p.s. Heather Cox Richardson later tonight: “Anglo-Saxon” is an old-fashioned historical description that has become a dog whistle for white supremacy. Scholars who study the Medieval world note that visions of a historical “white” England are fantasies, myths that are set in an imaginary past.
This was a myth welcome to pre-Civil War white southerners who fancied themselves the modern version of ancient English lords and used the concept of “Anglo-Saxon” superiority to justify spreading west over Indigenous and Mexican peoples. It was a myth welcome in the 1920s to members of the Ku Klux Klan, who claimed that “only as we follow in the pathway of the principles of our Anglo-Saxon father and express in our life the spirit and genius of their ideals may we hope to maintain the supremacy of the race, and to perpetuate our inheritance of liberty.” And it is a myth that appeals to modern-day white supremacists, who imitate what they think are ancient crests for their clothing, weapons, and organizations.
Rebranded white supremacy is blathering about Anglo-Saxons as it seeks to form an "America First" caucus. The Anglo-Saxons were invaders. Of Britain. Their heyday was known as the Dark Ages. The America First proclamation today: "America is a nation with a border, and a culture, strengthened by a common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions." Which Anglo-Saxon political traditions would they like to protect? Wikipedia: "An important racial belief system in late 19th- and early 20th-century British and US thought advanced the argument that the civilization of English-speaking nations was superior to that of any other nations because of racial traits and characteristics inherited from the Anglo-Saxon invaders of Britain."
But the actual Anglo-Saxons? History site: "When the Roman legions left Britain, the Germanic-speaking Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians began to arrive – at first in small invading parties, but soon in increasing numbers. Initially they met little firm resistance from the relatively defenceless inhabitants of Britannia. Around 500 AD, however, the invaders were resisted fiercely by the Romano-British, who might have been led by King Arthur, if he existed – and there is no hard evidence that he did.
"The Celtic areas of Britain regarded the Saxons as enemies and foreigners on their borders: their name became Sassenachs to the Scottish and Saesneg to the Welsh. The various Anglo-Saxon groups settled in different areas of the country. They formed several kingdoms, often changing, and constantly at war with one another..... By 650 AD there were seven separate kingdoms."
Apparently these would-be Anglo-Saxons did not get As in English. The manifesto leaked today is full of sentences that amble all over the place: "The America First Caucus will work towards an infrastructure that reflects the architectural, engineering and aesthetic value that befits the progeny of European architecture, whereby public infrastructure must be utilitarian as well as stunningly, classically beautiful, befitting a world power and source of freedom."
Anglo-Saxon architecture: build wattle-and-daub pig pens? Thatch the White House? Wikipedia: "Anglo-Saxon secular buildings were normally rectangular post built structures, where timber posts were driven into the ground to form the framework of the walls upon which the thatched roofs were constructed. Only ten of the hundreds of settlement sites that have been excavated in England from this period have revealed masonry domestic structures and confined to a few quite specific contexts. The usual explanation for the tendency of Anglo–Saxons to build in timber is one of technological inferiority or incompetence. Even the elite had simple buildings, with a central fire and a hole in the roof to let the smoke escape and the largest of which rarely had more than one floor, and one room."
p.s. Heather Cox Richardson later tonight: “Anglo-Saxon” is an old-fashioned historical description that has become a dog whistle for white supremacy. Scholars who study the Medieval world note that visions of a historical “white” England are fantasies, myths that are set in an imaginary past.
This was a myth welcome to pre-Civil War white southerners who fancied themselves the modern version of ancient English lords and used the concept of “Anglo-Saxon” superiority to justify spreading west over Indigenous and Mexican peoples. It was a myth welcome in the 1920s to members of the Ku Klux Klan, who claimed that “only as we follow in the pathway of the principles of our Anglo-Saxon father and express in our life the spirit and genius of their ideals may we hope to maintain the supremacy of the race, and to perpetuate our inheritance of liberty.” And it is a myth that appeals to modern-day white supremacists, who imitate what they think are ancient crests for their clothing, weapons, and organizations.
