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The Washington Post ran a story [local archive] headlined “Chinese Working Overtime to Sew U.S. Flags,” relating to the rocketing number of American flag purchases in the wake of the terror. This is not surprising, given that U.S. mythology casts Betsy Ross as Prometheus: a legendary figure who once gave us a great gift, before the means to produce it became cheap, widespread, and completely disposable. Many U.S. citizens fail to realize that the headline indicates the source of the problem in the first place.
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