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The True Symbol Of The United States Is The Pentagon by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-07-25 at 00:35:58 )
The True Symbol Of The United States Is The Pentagon by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
The real symbol of the United States is not the stars and stripes, nor the bald eagle, nor the Statue of Liberty, nor even the mighty McDonalds logo. The real symbol of the United States is the Pentagon.
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The real symbol of the United States is not the stars and stripes, nor the bald eagle, nor the Statue of Liberty, nor even the mighty McDonalds logo. The real symbol of the United States is the Pentagon.
The Pentagon should feature centrally on the United States flag. It should be on the coins and on all the bills, and it should appear next to the name of every United States of American in the Olympics. When anyone sees a five-sided polygon, they should immediately think "United States of America".
There is nothing more representative of the most significant things about the United States than the Pentagon. Sure the United States has lovely national parks, an abundance of fast food chains and 500 million-dollar superhero movies, but nothing has anywhere near the effect on the world as the United States governments ability to project force around the planet with military violence and the threat thereof.
That is the main thing that makes the United States unique among nations, after all. Americans are taught from childhood to take special pride in their nations "freedom" and "democracy" (of which they have neither), when what actually makes their country stand out against the crowd is its role as the hub of a globe-spanning empire that is held together by nonstop military aggression.
The five-sided building which houses the United States Department of Defense - formerly called the Department of War until someone noticed that was a bit too truthful - is the perfect symbol for that empire. It conveys what the United States is really putting out into the world more accurately than any other.
It is easy to forget that you live in the hub of the most powerful empire in history when you actually live there, in the same way it is so calm in the eye of a hurricane that you would hardly know your world is being ripped apart around you.
But because the United States-centralized empire influences global dynamics so pervasively, and because every major international conflict in the world involves it to some degree, that is what affects the most people in the world to the furthest extent right now.
How much money they have. Whether they get to feed their kids today. Whether they will be torn to shreds by military explosives tomorrow. Whether they will have to watch everyone die in a nuclear holocaust next year.
So as far as humanity is concerned the most distinctive thing about the United States is its empire, and the most accurate symbol for that empire is the Pentagon.
Artists, activists and memesters should make more use of this powerful symbol, because it is right there, easy to draw and everything!
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