The open adoration for their empire is such a foreign concept to me. I mean we have something similar in Germany but its more abstract, more predicated on looking down on others and congratulating ourselves for our shoddy holocaust remembrance and semi functional welfare systems.

But USians have a whole mythology with hero-epics and grand statues to honor them its like something out of ancient Greece.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But USians have a whole mythology with hero-epics and grand statues to honor them its like something out of ancient Greece.

yeah there's a bunch of founder wank for the ancient greeks. it's also why a bunch of our civic buildings have greek (maybe athenian specifically? it's been a minute) architectural features

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Everyone at the time was hugely into the neo-classical style, it's just that Europe grew out of it faster than the US did. (Sadly)

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