American democracy is false
but
The Culture War is real, deep, useful and necessary for the system
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The funny thing is that the first great creator of the culture war was Paul of Tarsus.
Paul of Tarsus was "the leader of the school of the Nazarenes" (says the Book of Acts)
They were (ca. 40-66) a group of very radical communists that arose as a result of the landing (ca. 40) of the Legions of Caligula in the port of Ptolemais ...
... that adds to a handful of other things long to explain and, finally, to the death as a rebel slave of "a certain Jesus." (ca. 33)
What is striking about this convoluted story is that Paul of Tarsus framed his ideas (some brilliantt, others delirious and others tenebrous) as a confrontation between the Arab-Hebrew culture and the Greek-Roman culture.