Basic tenants of Americanism, shaping its ideal cosmopolitan homo Americanus:
1] Open-Markets, Open-Borders – free flow of goods & services, i.e., Globalism.
Sacrifice of physicality, experienced as need/suffering, in an effort to attain immortality as an imagined state of eternal peace, viz., alluding to a fantastic state of liberation from need/suffering.
2] Individualism – ego-centered. Promoting and prescribing a future man entirely void of past, i.e., lacking a genetically inherited identity – nature; man as entirely nurtured, i.e., created from birth from a presumed blank state (tabula rasa) – socially determined; man as a resource, a product of ongoing socioeconomic supply/demand dynamics, entirely subjective, subjected to an inter-subjective socioeconomic environment, i.e., civilization with no dominant culture.
Individuals judged exclusively by their performances within this supply/demand market dynamic, viz., consuming/producing measured monetarily, via marketability, popularity, etc.
Ego defined as the lucid part of consciousness – referring to the ‘self’ in self-consciousness, i.e., consciousness of one’s own consciousness, identifying only with what is clearly intended by itself, rejecting, and denying unconscious automated physical reactions and/or impulses.
3] Messianism – ‘freedom’ replacing salvation myths, via a messianic icon/idol which has been abstracted into credit codes, e.g., money, implying a liberation from the past – inheritance; liberation from physical identifiers, i.e., natural identifiers, the physical, the body as past made present as presence; compensating for the loss of a past with the promise of an imminent techno-utopian future, replacing paradise and its allusion to a beyond space/time eternal bliss with futurism; a multifariously singular one-god replaced by the conception of a diversified one-humanity; god-creator of oneness replaced by universal order, manifesting an individuated creation of its singularity, as an extension of divine will; “will to power” redefined as universal fatalism determining an inevitable outcome, positively affirmed, i.e., faith in divine benevolence – individuals acting as divine agencies nullifying injustices, evil, bigotry, cruelty, hatred etc. progressing towards an inevitably divine perfection within which all injustices are justified and all suffering is validated.
America presents itself as an agency of salvation, via monetary relief from nature’s cruel viciousness – a pragmatic application of either/or binaries as its sacred codes, e.g., either all mankind will be saved from its past, from itself i.e., its own nature, or all mankind will be doomed to an eternity in an earthly hell, via extermination/extinction, i.e., Armageddon.
4] Futurism (akin of the Italian art movement) – focus of presence – the present – on an eternally imminent future, with no inhibiting past to limit all forms of idealized projection forward, and forever onward – eternal hope is maintained as a constant ‘yet to become’ which can never disappoint, projecting an eternally unblemished imminent present [see 2]; individuality reduced to a noetic singularity – entirely theoretical and abstract – with an ongoing presence – created socioeconomically, wilfully, intentionally – and an imminent future – positive projections of idealized state of being, but with no past to hinder mental projections. [See postmodernism]
A seductive idea if you keep in mind accumulating unfit mutations burdening the common man with failures he cannot fully understand – finding relief in accusations against an evil external agency, preventing the full realization of the promised ideal. [ MANifesto: Word Wars]
5] Pragmatism at the cost of reason and integrity. What works is true, what fails to produce a desired outcome is useless, ergo untrue. Hedonism is presented as a validating criterion for judging and choosing varied knowledge/understanding, i.e., subjective perspectives. Objective determining subjective validity, therefore controlling all acceptable objectives, e.g., ambitions, desires, wants etc., to be adopted and imitated by the mediocre masses – put into practice.
Americanism uses materialism – access to goods & services – as a measure of man’s highest objectives, ergo freedom, i.e., salvation, liberty, is validated by access to multiple varieties of goods & services; ‘pursuit of happiness,’ as a guiding objective determines an individual’s assessment of validity, e.g., if it does not add to the potential for attaining happiness – defined as comfort, safety, pleasure etc. – it is false and useless, if it does it is true and useful – criterion reduced to primal needs/desires: lowest-common-denominator. ‘Happiness’ is defined as the gratification of needs/desires that can only be evaluated through access to goods & services, ergo, more access, more goods and services available to an individual is a measure of its contentment, its pleasure options, and its happiness.
An idea contrary to Schopenhauer’s understanding of pleasure’s negative state; pleasure associated with a positive state of becoming, ephemerally liberated from the experience of existing, via distraction, satiation, and/or detachment.
Manipulating the pleasure principle herd psychology is exploited and placated in order to establish an artificial stare of harmonious coexistence.
6] More is best – perpetual economic growth used as a measure of success and happiness. [See 5]
In the either/or binary asceticism is defined is accordance with Abrahamic world-views – as an end in itself – rather than Hellenic (Ασκησις) balance, as a means to an end. ‘Less is more,’ becomes ‘more is better’ – i.e., gluttony, greed, promiscuity as a basic measure of happiness, i.e., quantity over quality – ‘progress’ becomes a perpetual movement towards greater quantities, even at the expense of lower qualities. Markets must be continuously growing, wealth increasing, goods and services multiplying, because this is the only way to practically measure truth and happiness.
Thrownness does not exist outside of building/thinking/dwelling.