Columbia Needs You
Happy pre-4th of July, my fellow Americans
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This is a short Post to plug reviving Columbia as the symbol of our nation, in time for the celebration of our 250th next year.
As a balance-ist, I’d prefer the taijitu, better known as Yin Yang, but that’s a little too far from our American symbolic vocabulary … and the South Koreans already took it.
Hear me out on Columbia.
She was our original symbol. She shares the name of our capital with the Father of the Country. We named the Great River of the West after her. She looks a lot like Liberty, another beautiful symbol of our nation … merci, France!
Am I the only one who thinks the image of Uncle Sam has outlived its usefulness.
The little chin beard may be coming back in fashion, at least among the heavy metal crowd, but top hats … just no. Not to open the can of worms, and in the spirit of giving others a turn, I’ll offer up that Old White Men as the representative demographic can take a break. (Please, lefty identitarians, no piling on. We don’t need a bunch of White Supremacists jumping in and making this a food fight.)
Granted, we live in a moment where some of the most un-masculine overcompensating males ever to strut the national stage — Zuck, Elmo, JD, SMiller, all the Trump men, Bezos, Lady Lindsey, Jordan Peterson, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Gutfeld … — can’t stop babbling and ranting about how we need more masculinity in their companies, our society, government and military.
Really? Diaper wearing draft-dodging dotard Dementia Donald is the role model for half the population??
If we’re going to anthropomorphize, ideally we’d pick a beautiful couple, say like Isis and Osiris. Love them, modulo the colorism … plus ça change, I suppose.
Or perhaps a multi-generational family. But you can see how that might quickly devolve into something like the Olympus crowd.
A little too pagan, even given the Classical Greco-Roman basis of our American civilization.
Let us then go for temporal balance. Uncle’s had a good long run of over a century at this point. How about we give the lady a second turn. She needs us now, perhaps, sad to say, more than ever.
To all the frustrated lefties, wallowing in despair and throwing in the towel, planning to move to Canada or elsewhere abroad: grow a little spine. Your forefathers and mothers fought for this nation. Not just digital flame-fests on the internet. Many “gave the last full measure of devotion”, to quote the nation’s greatest speech.
This is no time to go all wobbly.
