hey, what is freedom anyway? doing what you want, telling other people to get out of your way if they know what's good for them—if they want to live? in the frontier myth freedom was defined as freedom from restraint, as in market conquest, and that freedom was predicated on subjugation of the indigenous and slaves . everyone agreed on expansion except the conquered peoples. in 1893 that guy turner, like obomba today, deracinated the myth of expansion. made it universal. trump put race back in, took the border wall to space, the final trump frontier of violent expansion. he can say anything, it won't happen, it'll be more barbaric, then collapse. we're at the end of the myth, of war for democracy i.e. expansion of empire. war is no longer justified in missionary terms. it's over. there's no growth, just concentrated wealth, war for its own sake. things cannot continue to go on the way they are. will it be barbarism or socialism. the choice was made for us, now people have to make it: barbarism or socialism. trump or bernie. the myth of freedom is existential now. it always was, but the limit is reached. it used to be you didn't buy the myth, you're out, now the myth is out.