Dissident Mama, episode 86 – Paul Graham & “Nonsense on Stilts”

This is my first interview in 4 months. I’ve been on a hiatus in order to focus more on home-life priorities since (in case y’all haven’t noticed) modern life is pretty darn crazy. So for my toe-dip back in the podcasting pool, I chose to talk with my friend and brother in arms Paul C. Graham, author of the tremendous new book “Nonsense on Stilts: The Gettysburg Address & Lincoln’s Imaginary Nation.” The book tackles Abe’s famous war-craft speech, which Graham says “has achieved a status akin to holy writ” and resulted in a “quasi-religious orgy of praise.” Memorized by high school students across the fruited plains and touted by every neocon who draws breath, the Gettysburg Address has come to define the (false) “American psyche” and is a “contradiction we all live with.”

👉 Watch on YouTube or Odysee.

You might notice that the audio is not yet available. I’m working through some tech issues that have been plaguing my return to the world of podcasting. Until then, enjoy the conversation on one of my video channels. And be sure to check out a few relevant links, as well:

• Dissident Mama, episode 4 – Paul C. Graham
• Lincoln on Stilts by David Gordon
• Dishonest Abe’s False Alibi by Perrin Lovett
• “Nonsense on Stilts”: The Rhetorical Cornerstone of the American Welfare/Warfare State by Tom DiLorenzo
• Lyin’ Atlanta, part 2 by me: “Since the victors write the history, we now have our revolutionary bookends: Lincoln predictably cast as the ‘redeemer’ and MLK as the ‘healer,’ while the South with its (fill in the blank) ‘slavery,’ ‘treason,’ ‘racism,’ ‘greed,’ ‘backwardness,’ ‘laziness,’ etc. is forever framed as the enemy of the good, an ornery and cancerous impediment to the ‘holy work’ of our twin messiahs. It’s a Bolshevik blueprint with staying power.”

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