American historical ideology that the poster notes they were never taught to applaud, having always known the country as 'one big Native burial ground.'
"Maybe this shit was more cutting edge in the 1960s? Nobody actually told me to revere the founding fathers... since highschool I was taught that they owned slaves and didn't allow women to vote, etc. Nobody told me to applaud "manifest destiny"--I've always known that the entire country is one big N"
"It's a new frontier that double-signals as Hyperborea, a northern utopia, framed by cinematic settings of glaciers, an enriched north, a tabula rasa, and a renewed Manifest Destiny."