for the 8th grade. Well written, revered as such, puts things so that the citizens can know they have a document that really exists, which the country and its laws adhere to. Erosion of this idea is great if you would like to go capriceous and unitary, but that is so complicated... NOT. I agree: the job of the influence operators is to get us whole-heartedly, yet utterly mindlessly, into the myth of American Exceptionalism. I'd say something similar: it's to convince us that we're free to do exactly as we're told, or go to hell forever and ever amen. Or go bankrupt for developing the symptoms of being alive. Or for buying the "house of your American dreams." Or go to Gitmo, or Bagram, or DoD knows where. Same thing. We're sold on the myth that, if you play your cards right in rigged-casino capitalism , as Max Keiser puts it, you'll win entry to The Good Life. If you're not living the Good Life, you didn't play your stacked-deck dealt cards right. IMO, the fundamental strategy of this attempts to jack our shared narratives are all about convincing us organic humans to believe ourselves to be either a) from the Right: servants on the estates of our natural-born MOTU (political economy as plantation); or b) from the Left: cogs in the wheels of the mechanisms of the Great Cosmic Machine, mastered by the political exercise of unregulated kinetic power (political economy as mechanism, with power measured in dollars,