Meta-Buffy/America Thought

[butterfly]

"Uh, reconstruction began after the... construction, which was... shoddy, so they had to reconstruct."
Buffy, Angel (S1), on The Reconstruction

Actually, this strikes me as very true, even if Buffy may not have realized it. The construction of America was shoddy -- built on hypocrisy ("Actually, it was Jefferson." "Kept slaves. Remember?" -- Willow and Cordelia, Go Fish (S2)) and thus unstable. The Civil War was a demolition, the tearing down of a compromised structure, and then came the Reconstruction.

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[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

*giggles like a mad thing*

[jic]

Hmmm. There's a difference between being built by hypocrites and being built on hypocrisy.

If the documents themselves are self-contradictory in a hypocritical nature when you take them independent from the authors, that would be built on hypocrisy.

If the only source of hypocrisy is in that the authors did not practice what they preached, then it was simply built by hypocrites.

The Civil War -- That was an act of selfishness.