The Meeting That Established the Final Phase of World System Governance
Next year on July 4 the Great Americanist Populace will celebrate the country's semiquincentennial (I'll bet you'll become acquainted with that term over the next few months), or its 250th birthday. There will be the grandest display of Americanist revelry -- the shows the parades the fireworks the colors the exhibitions the bunting the flag-waving the processions the feasting the speeches the massively inspirational pageantry all around. There will also likely be some hifalutin pontificating about the real founding of the United States the-greatest-freest-bestest-country-on-the-planet, you know, lots about the American Revolution and George Washington and these freedom-starting things and those liberty-championing things and the delightfully powerful Americanist mythologies that give us warm patriotic fuzzies and some other heretofore bit more obscure element of the nation's founding that is no less exhilarating to reflect upon as all the others because it is so effe...