America Prophecies
American Founders
American Political History
Soul of America Essays
Albions Seed
The Soul of Russia
The Soul of America Project Proposal
The Soul of America/Where We Are
Astrology/America Natal Chart
Hopi Indians
Indigenous History

"Every nation bears in itself the standard of its perfection, totally independent of all comparison with that of others" - Herder

We must understand our goals so that we are not frantic (ji) and fragmented (bu cheng). See The Chinese Pleasure Book.

"But if our hearts shall turn away, so that we will not obey, but shall be seduced, and worship other Gods, our pleasure and profits, and serve them; it is propounded unto us this day, we shall surely perish out of the good land whither we pass over this vast sea to possess it." - John Winthrop, City Upon a Hill

How does one give justice to and integrate the genocide of the indigenous?

What is America's soul? The first spiritual wave came with Winthrop and the pilgrims, the second with Emerson and the American Renaissance. What is it now?

The english language
English seems destined to become the global language because it is so tonally malleable. (Am I right about this?) It seems to have a large vocal range. Other languages sound more homogenous across dialects than English (heavily accented by every culture + state by state dialects, LA vs southern vs wasp english), but maybe my ear is untrained.

Unique American Religion

William James, vital reserves (a goldmine for this point), p. 34: new thought, christian science, focusing on positive thinking and good cheer. ties into american optimism and cheery suburban living. on 45, he also discusses faking emotions until you feel them. p. 54: "you americans wear too much expression on your faces". "vivacity of appearance is a nationally accepted ideal" p. 55. "love voices and quite faces as dull" p. 65

Jefferson's Natural Aristocracy

"Plato's monarchy was therefore a philosophic democracy; for all men had the right to become wise through self-discipline and self-improvement. One who achieved this state was by virtue of his own action a superior man, and this superiority was the only aristocracy recognized by Natural Law." - Manly P. Hall

Aesthetics

The t-shirt and jeans
Simple does not mean lack of culture
Forgetfulness of beauty destroys culture. But captain america looks beautiful, in a simple way. It's not better or worse. Just different.

Library
Gary Dorrien - social ethics at UTS, writes about american liberal theology and christianity and abolition
mathew david segall teaching a course on the american philosophical tradition at CIIS - https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/my-first-course-spring-2017-at-ciis
Albert Borgman - Real American Ethics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_United_States
https://www.jeremisuri.net/about