While the field of your flag must be new in the details of its design, it need not be entirely new in its elements. There is already in use a flag, I refer to the flag of the East India Company.
- Benjamin Franklin to George Washington (possibly apocryphal)
Many readers, when reading The Artificial Polis, may have thought that I was describing our country.
I assure you, I was not attempting to do so at all. I was describing Polis qua company. America is an Empire.
I’m fairly certain that there’s enough blood relations and follow through to describe DC as a natural Polis, not an Artificial one.
However, our country is not an artificial Empire. It really rules us. However, it does so so poorly as to destroy all it touches, and undermine its own strength. By which I mean that it has done all it can to destroy all ties that it’s own citizens has to their locales, and even recently, to the empire itself! Many will argue, and indeed have argued, that this make America stronger. That, unlike the East, being tied primarily to the Empire rather than local cities, states, or a Polis makes people stronger. Obviously in East and West go Toe to Toe we see that this is not the case.
Here, I will argue, that the loss of locality in itself necessitates that you will have less loyalty to the to the Empire after you destroy enough ties to a person’s locale. For, if they have no home at all, no locale, why would they be tied to your Empire rather than someone else’s?
For, you see, the Virtue of pride in one’s nation is an outgrowth of love of one’s Father and Family. Of one’s Polis.
It destroyed Polis, and then tried to sell us on the the idea of nation, built on buy in to a constitution. That’s it, all they have. An artificial idea, perfect for the an Empire of lies.
If you destroy Fatherhood, the Family, and the Polis; how will they fight for the Empire?
If Clear Channel Radio destroys local radio and music, why would they fight for the love of awful music one can’t connect with? Would one not fight harder for a song he heard playing, that was composed by his uncle and played on the radio?
If McDonalds puts his family’s restaurant out of business, why would he join up?
If the cars are all made in Japan he can’t work on a beater with his friends in high school, how will he learn to be a mechanic for the air force?
If the empire imports foreign labor at high school rates, how can he afford to court the girl he likes, or learn pride of work in trades like carpentry and drywall?
If the myth of the founding of the Empire is that we fought for Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, then why did we adopt the flag of a ravenous, usurious trade company that the average man of the day wouldn’t have known?
The myths continued deepening, melting our minds in their lies and in the pot.
My dear readers.
The soldier has destroy any chance we’ve had at a Polis, the poet enchanted us to the lies, and the people in DC enslaved to the greed and hedonism. By destroying fatherhood, family, and congregating in a Polis by blood relations, they made it impossible for us to to come to understand, and thus pursue, the common good.
When they destroy the Polis, they destroy the very thing that would make anyone that is ruled by them loyal, strong, and indebted to them for their good rule over those whom they rule.
Stop accepting it.
I answer that, man becomes a debtor to other men in various ways, according to their various excellence and the various benefits received from them. On both counts God holds first place, for He is supremely excellent, and is for us the first principle of being and government. In the second place, the principles of our being and government are our parents and our country, that haven given us birth and nourishment. Consequently man is debtor chiefly to his parents and his country, after God. Wherefore just as it belongs to religion to give worship to God, so does it belong to piety, in the second place, to give worship to one’s parents and one’s country.
The worship due to our parents includes the worship given to all our kindred, since our kinsfolk are those who descend from the same parents, according to the Philosopher (Ethic viii, 12). The worship given to our country includes homage to all our fellow-citizens and to all the friends of our country. Therefore piety extends chiefly to these.
Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica Secunda Secunda Q101 A3