Personal Note XXXIX

Yahweh in (יהוה‎):
Moses and the Burning Bush

Clarifying Notes on the United States |
Saturday – March 7, 2026

The United States or perhaps America? Well, I suppose the "official" name is The United States of America. Whatever the name, I hope that I've made it clear that I'm referring to the U.S.A. or maybe I should use the U.S.? I don't know actually, so I've decided to go by America, even though, as I briefly explained in my notes on the ongoing war in Iran, simply calling the U.S.A., America is somewhat problematic, not the least due to the fact that America is situated on the North American continent, which is part of the Americas, refereeing to both North and South America, but I do believe that this somewhat clumsy introduction has made this point clear, so that I don't need to dwell on this any further or at another time; again, I will refer to The United States of America as simply America. Besides everything about the name, I really don't like abbreviations, because I just find them to be too general and really annoying and for the most part generalizations don't make me put on a gaylong smile, that's for sure.

    As I referred to my posts on the ongoing war in Iran, part of my "Personal Notes series", I think this would be a good place to begin, regarding why I feel a need to "clarify" my views on America. See, I referred to America as an offensive and profane country in my second post about the ongoing war in Iran, but I failed to further elaborate what was meant by this, simply because doing so would've been outside the scope of that post. By offensive and profane I truly mean offensive and profane in the truest sense of the word, not that America as a nation is offensive, in the "nationalistic" regard I can't say that I find America more offensive than any other supposed "nation" in the world, but I did also point out that America truly was one of the first, properly so-called, nation-states as it was one of the first nation-states to explicitly call for a separation between the sacred and the profane, in American discourse this is often referred to as a kind of separation between the state and the church, and by imposing a separation between the sacred and the profane, the sacred and the temporal, America became one of the first nation-states, a true monstrosity of modernity, and really the only nation-state that can be said to predate America is of course France, but then again the confluence of ideas affecting both of these societies during the late 18th century had much to do with each other, and even though a similar call, to erect a wall between the sacred and the temporal, was attempted in France, it largely failed in the "official" sense, but truly Napoleon was a profane ruler, and a tyrant, someone who set in motion what would result in the final act in the great deviation that has resulted in the modern world, and this is why I am more than happy to refer to France as very much an offensive nation as well, but more on this later; essentially, both America and France are results of bourgeois revolutions, a prerequisite for the nation-state. I also want to note that, while it is true than America is the second, again properly so called, nation-state in history, there are surely certain good aspects about this nation that could be recognized, especially if you're only interested in the perpetuation of the material order; in this regard America is truly the home of industry, even though modern industry began in, what is today, the United Kingdom. Also, America is surely profane and, yes, offensive in regards to Iran: can Iran truly be said to be an offensive nation? No, Iran, whatever you may think of it, is a nation that exists in a kind of spiritual confusion, and the attempt to impose the sacred or claim dominion over the sacred is also, as I've pointed out, monstrous, but not offensive in the true sense of the word. But of course, these words could be applied to both America and Iran, but the overriding course of America is offensive, while the overriding course of Iran is monstrous, yet it would surely be true to refer to American industry as monstrous and Iranian notions about the nature of spiritual authority as offensive; I don't dispute this, and at the end of the day we're dealing with nation-states here.

    So, is America legitimate? No, no nation-state can be said to be legitimate, and truly there is only one thing that can make the state, using modern vocabulary, legitimate, and that is spiritual authority, something that is completely lost in the Western world and very faint in the East. But, a nation being illegitimate has little impact on the material domain and your "everyday life", and this is why I can only recommend that you follow the laws of the land, not because you believe that the state is legitimate, in this case America, but because you may not win against the beast inside his domain; you are unfit for this task. Of course, opposition doesn't only have to come in the form of violence, something that I've covered here and here. Again, I will not provide any legal advice.

    I also find it interesting to share some of my views, not convictions I should point out, about America, because most of the "viewers"/"readers" of this page are registered as originating from America, but of course my own view is that most of my supposed "readers" are "bots", but that issue will not be further explored here. Since I very determinedly seek to remain above politics and aloof of most material concerns I will not be making any commentary about the political or material situation in America, but I can state quite frankly that yes, America is a nation of considerable material success and I've got no interest in minimizing or ridiculing this, and if you are a material man I can appreciate your likely conviction that America has done much good for the world; of course, while I've never opposed material and mechanistic "progress" as such, I do generally keep up a rather skeptical view of this supposed "progress". Another aspect of America that I could admit that I admire, form the point of view of materialism, is the national ethos of "free inquiry" and open discourse and truly the libertarian, at least in spirit, attitude towards opponents, and while I can admire this I still believe that this approach to information is entrenched in a quantitative assumption about the world that simply reduces information to the individual, something that threatens to strip information and in the end meaning of its essence, and this is why stupid notions such as "self made men" and "geniuses" tend to appear especially in American popular culture; also, it should be noted that moderns much too often stare themselves blind at the supposed "genius", which necessarily is at the expense of information, read "The End of History".

    Lastly, of course that tendency towards degeneration and decay, as manifestation descends from principle, can be noted in regards to the American constitutional order: what America was proclaimed to be at the start of the bourgeois revolution against the British Empire was truly something still quite different from what it has "evolved" into today, and for the most part America is really nothing of what it once used to be, and this is partly because of the acceleration of decay during the Kali Yuga, but also because of the humanist notion at the core of this constitutional order, that the Union will become more perfect as a function of time, truly a quintessentially modern and liberal idea, the first step towards the inversion of the hierarchical and natural order. While America can be said to be quite different in the year 2026 compared to what it was proclaimed as in the year 1776, no man in his right mind can say that this change was not the inevitable course of America, it had to end up here – truly a spiritual regression. If this is not offensive, then words have no qualification in the application of meaning to the human mind.

Reginald Drax – March 7, 2026.