The United States is now a universalistic enterprise which has no interest any longer in the universal -- meaning humanity -- but rather represents an imperial enterprise wholly-self-referent, and as such consumed by narcissistic politics within its Imperial Court. If nothing else this is -- as Rod Serling would say -- "The signpost up ahead."
It is the signpost planted by a once-magnificent enterprise. American religious nationalism of old has lost its way. We have lost our way in part because we can no longer see things as they really are, but equally because our American enterprise has forgotten what is most important to our life as a nation -- and what is most important to us is what we can give to humanity.
Imperial court politics gives the lie to a once-stainless charge of American mission. Read that signpost up ahead. Ignore it at your peril.
Michael Vlahos
