Recognized September 6, 2026
Moral credit spent down
The trust-economy across WWI, WWII, and Vietnam: WWII's manufactured 'good vs evil' narrative (built through propaganda apparatus on both sides, exemplified by the staged Khaldei Reichstag photograph) functions as capitalized moral credit for the US/West. Vietnam spends that credit down with a lag rather than starting from zero — the backfire of raw, uncensored Vietnam War footage was delayed by the size of the reserve built in the 1940s, and further diffused by the war spanning multiple US presidents rather than attaching to a single confirmed figure the way WWII attached to Hitler. The credit was badly dented (My Lai, the Pentagon Papers) but not exhausted, which is why the US was not rewritten as history's villain the way Nazi Germany was.
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