I guess I don’t understand your statement about “believing they are on the frontier” like, what does that have to do with eating beef? Do you think that people somehow associate cowboys with hamburgers? That’s definitely an outside perspective and a weird one at that, if that’s what you’re saying.
im saying many people in america still like to think about the states in some kind of frontier fantasy with unlimited space and everyone should be able to get literally anything they want if they work. like the libertarian fantasy of no government needed because ill just do my thing on my homestead and you do yours, ignoring that there are now 8 billion people on the planet and how the industrial revolution has made it so no one lives in a bubble
I think it is important to recognize that even from the beginning this frontier fantasy was a convenient, genocidal lie that told a nice whitewashed (or rather bleached) story about the “Wild West” not already being the settled home of human beings.
This aspect of the US is in perfect harmony with the process of genocide being enacted by Israel on Palestinians in Gaza.
I guess I don’t understand your statement about “believing they are on the frontier” like, what does that have to do with eating beef? Do you think that people somehow associate cowboys with hamburgers? That’s definitely an outside perspective and a weird one at that, if that’s what you’re saying.
im saying many people in america still like to think about the states in some kind of frontier fantasy with unlimited space and everyone should be able to get literally anything they want if they work. like the libertarian fantasy of no government needed because ill just do my thing on my homestead and you do yours, ignoring that there are now 8 billion people on the planet and how the industrial revolution has made it so no one lives in a bubble
I think it is important to recognize that even from the beginning this frontier fantasy was a convenient, genocidal lie that told a nice whitewashed (or rather bleached) story about the “Wild West” not already being the settled home of human beings.
This aspect of the US is in perfect harmony with the process of genocide being enacted by Israel on Palestinians in Gaza.