The Alamo is remembered as a tragic last stand; men with rifles and inevitable odds, surrounded by Santa Anna’s imperial forces. But consider what the Alamo really was. Not just a battle, but a metaphysical demonstration, straight out of Plato’s Republic. The men who died at the Alamo weren’t just fighting Mexico. They were fighting empire itself, and like the prisoners in the Allegory of the Cave, they thought they were free until the shadow-puppets became bullet fire. The Texians, who were mostly Jacksonian irregulars, some idealists, and some opportunists, believed they were building something real in a republic. But they didn’t understand that they were already inside the cave, their view of liberty shaped by London-trained financiers, land speculation syndicates, and the Malthusian logic of expansion without sovereignty. Santa Anna wasn’t the cave master, he was just another puppet. The real cave is the Anglo-Dutch imperial system, and the shadow on the wall is whatever patriotic myth you were fed chanting “Remember the Alamo.” What actually happened was a group of men saw the shadows move wrong and tried to break out. They failed. But in failing, they exposed the shape of the wall. Their mistake wasn’t in resisting empire, it was in thinking they could do it without first transforming their own conception of freedom. They remained trapped in the cave and ended up dying in the cave. The Alamo wasn’t a symbol of American courage, but a warning about epistemological capture.

>>17837883 (OP)
in reality it was just a shitty scuffle like millions of others in history

Meds. Now.

>>17837883 (OP)
I REMEMBER
OH GOD I REMEMBER
THE SCREAMING

>>17837883 (OP)
What would you do if his position?

>>17838168
If I were in James Fannin’s position, I would not have awaited orders from an emerging apparatus already saturated with land speculators, cotton pirates, and Anglophile delusions. Nor would I have embraced the false dream of a permanently independent Texas; a dream shaped not by the aspirations of a sovereign people, but by the divide-and-conquer geometry of British imperial strategy.

No. In Fannin’s place, I would have recognized what few did at the time: that the only viable future for Texas, and for the broader cause of republicanism in the Americas, lay in a principled and deliberate unification with the American Republic. Not as a vassal state, not as a slaveholding extension of Jacksonian degeneration, but as a sovereign partner in the great project of building a continental republic dedicated to science, infrastructure, and the sacred creative potential of the human mind.

Why? Because the true enemy wasn’t Mexico. Nor was it Santa Anna, who was merely a puppet caught in a geopolitical script he didn’t write. The real enemy, the axiomatic enemy, was the British Empire and its financiers, who sought, as always, to atomize the Americas, to balkanize them into petty warlordisms, commercial free-trade zones, and synthetic republics whose constitutions were written by banks, not by philosophers or statesmen.

I would have declared openly that the independence of Texas, while seemingly brave, was incomplete, vulnerable, and inherently unstable unless it was subsumed into the larger mission of the American Republic, as envisioned by Hamilton, Clay, and Quincy Adams: a nation of principle, not profit; of sovereign development, not speculative looting.

>>17838168
>>17838207
I would not have waited for Washington to discover this truth on its own. I would have actively reached out to its remaining republicans, those uncorrupted by the Jackson-Biddle axis, those who still believed in the power of a national bank, a protective tariff, and internal improvements. I would have allied with intellectuals and engineers, with foreign sympathizers of the American System, with German republicans, French Bonapartists, and anti-imperialist Mexican liberals, to create a transcontinental front for human progress and economic sovereignty.

To be in Fannin’s position and not see this, that is, to think the fight was merely military, or local, or Texian, was to remain trapped in the cave of imperial illusion.

My highest God-given mission, in that moment and in all moments, would have been the total expulsion of British imperial manipulation from the Western Hemisphere, and the erection of a unified, industrial, republican civilization, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, capable of lifting all peoples beyond empire, beyond oligarchy, and into a new era of reason.
Fannin died for Texas. I would have lived for the Republic.

Alamo poster should be taken behind the Alamo and shot.

>>17838207
Texas always wanted independence and still do, is not shaped by anything but it's own people and geography, happens a lot with deserts

>>17837883 (OP)
Remember Alamogordo New Mexico

>>17838274
You're an (((atheist))).

>>17838381
Remember being centralists bootlickers*

>>17837883 (OP)
>Those dag-gum Meheecans in Mexico City tramplin' mah rights!
>an' me, massa? Wumbout mah rights too?
>Shet up nigger, or I'll hang ya.

>>17838409
Wrong again...as usual anon, try to get your shit together seriously

>>17839000
Why yes, I support gun