History | Americans do not belong in America

A strange and evil land.

Tom X Hart
Sep 6, 2018 · 2 min read
  1. I believe that America is an ancient and dark land that, one day, will rise up and reclaim the continent from the people who live there. The Americans are merely incidental, and the native Americas – without sentimentality – are merely the remnants of those that the continent has devoured before.
  2. The American preoccupation with disaster and zombie hordes merely reflects the fact that Americans do not belong in America. They are a strange intrusion upon that continent and will be swept away, sooner or later. This is why they enjoy science fiction films where a small band colonise a strange planet and fight quasi-demonic aliens there. America is the strange planet.
  3. Perhaps Americans should consider going home to Europe.
  4. Americans, being frontier people, cannot stop moving outwards. Their destiny is probably to colonise other planets and stars. They have, for the moment, stopped moving and turned inwards. This was what the 1970s was: a collective decision to explore inner space, rather than outer space.
  5. Everything that America has achieved is incidental to her forward movement towards the frontier. When Americans stop moving, they die.
  6. Israel is the only extant American frontier.
  7. I always feel, when in America, that everything is a film set. And I don’t think this is because I’ve watched the country so many times on films and television. I think it’s because everything there is provisional and, as noted above, does not really belong. The landscape is America, but the buildings and people don’t seem to fit under those great skies. Universal agoraphobia.

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