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Hey guys, John here. Just thinking about chapter six from my book Against the Waves, Christian Order in a Liberal Age. You can go to againstthewavesbook .com if you want to copy, but this is one of my favorite chapters that I had to write because I really wanted this information out there and I didn't see anywhere else that you could access this, at least in an understandable compact form.
And so the chapter is on the proposition nation myth, this idea that the it reduces down to the notion of equality. It's this abstraction. You can put the United States in the Middle East by just introducing a little democracy, a little equality, and they'll just be like Americans.
Anyone who immigrates here, it doesn't matter what language or religion they have, they can be Americans because they'll believe in equality. It's a really low par. And no other people has had this kind of reductionistic understanding of their own identity, but for some reason in the United States this has happened.
And the more curious thing to me is how did this get into conservative circles? How come people who call themselves conservatives, who want to conserve the unique particular things that make America what it is, why would they reduce everything down to this notion of equality?
And it really is that whole step was influenced by a guy named Harry Jaffa. And there's not a lot of at least accessible critique of Harry Jaffa or even tracing how he did this. And that's what I do. That's what I do in this chapter.
And honestly it's probably worth the rest of the book, even if that's the only chapter you read. But I could say more, I'm not going to. I've talked about the proposition nation quite a bit on the podcast, but go check it out.
Againstthewavesbook .com if you want to know the history on how this idea of the proposition nation became mainstream even in so-called conservative circles. God bless.