Washington, our invisible father

One of the symptoms of the Western resentment of the father, as touched on in the previous entry, is Americans’ resentment of, or, at the very least, shocking indifference to their own national father, George Washington, whose life and character I discussed in an article in 2003. In a comment following that article I said:

On the invisibility of Washington in America, I think this is a major factor in our loss of national identity. He is the largest and most important (as well as the most interesting as far as I’m concerned) figure in our history. For Americans (including conservatives) to know next to nothing about him, the father of our country, is a mark against us. It is as though someone knew and cared nothing about his own father, who just happened to be one of the greatest men who ever lived. There’s something seriously amiss here.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 22, 2005 02:02 PM | Send