> The US represents a certain mythology The 'mythology' is an attempt to dismiss it - ironically using Enlightenment concepts. The Enlightenment was the escape

> The US represents a certain mythology The 'mythology' is an attempt to dismiss it - ironically using Enlightenment concepts. The Enlightenment was the escape from mythology, using actual fact and reason, which is the foundation of democracy. Much more than mythology, democracy, the US, and the Enlightment generally have been overwhelming successes in reality. Nothing in the history of humanity comes close. The 'mythology' is that somehow dictatorship is somehow 'natural' or necessary or inevitable or even reasonable.