Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Manifest Destiny on a Huge Scale

There is an American flag that I have seen where the 50 stars are replaced with a spiral galaxy: sort of Manifest Destiny for the Milky Way, not just the North American continent.   (Or in Eldridge Cleaver's patriotic post-Marxist vision, all of the Western Hemisphere.) I can't find it.  For the Manifest Destiny section of American history next semester, I think it would make a great gag.

Not the one that I had seen but it works.

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  1. https://allpoetry.com/poem/6739603-On-the-Next-American-Flag-by-Mr.-Numi-Who-

    10 seconds of googling

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  2. See if this works:

    https://allpoetry.com/secureimage/?url=wpbiro.globat.com/images8/american_flag_galaxy.jpg

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  3. Not the one I had seen but it works.

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  4. I would love to see a futuristic space movie where the humans who land on the new planet and claim it for "life, individual liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" are photographed a la Neil Armstrong saluting that flag...

    The resulting head-exploding, spittle-flecking, and general horror-shrieking at the NYT and Wapo would be delightful.

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  5. When we move the capital to Trantor...

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