I've been trying to assert this Star Wars / Skywalker Ranch teaching for a long time.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 during the Arab Spring ....

https://old.reddit.com/r/islam/comments/pndri/i_dont_mean_to_offend_anybody_but_i_think_muslims/c3qxj0l/

Dear fellow Muslim...

First off, I don't have time to go into all the details of this. It's a huge field of study. However, I quote New York Professor Joseph Campbell, who worked at a very open [to criticism] university:

[USA] "This is the first nation in the world that was ever established on the basis of reason instead of simply warfare. These were eighteenth-century deists, these gentlemen. Over here we read, "In God We Trust." But that is not the god of the Bible. These men did not believe in a Fall. They did not think the mind of man was cut off from God. The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God. Reason puts you in touch with God. Consequently, for these men, there is no special revelation anywhere, and none is needed, because the mind of man cleared of its fallibilities is sufficiently capable of the knowledge of God. All people in the world are thus capable because all people in the world are capable of reason.

All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy. Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be."

Even the Communist Party of China considers seriously all the criticism levied at it and then takes actions accordingly and rationally.

Campbell: "your reason is one kind of thinking. But thinking things out isn't necessarily reason in this sense. Figuring out how you can break through a wall is not reason. The mouse who figures out, after it bumps its nose here, that perhaps he can get around there, is figuring something out the way we figure things out. But that's not reason. Reason has to do with finding the ground of being and the fundamental structuring of order of the universe."

and it goes back even further, again quoting: "Here you have the important transition that took place about 500 B.C. This is the date of the Buddha and of Pythagoras and Confucius and Lao-tzu, if there was a Lao-tzu. This is the awakening of man's reason. No longer is he informed and governed by the animal powers. No longer is he guided by the analogy of the planted earth, no longer by the courses of the planets -- but by reason."

USA culture is not based entirely on European culture. I quote Campbell again: "George Washington's farewell address and told to outline the whole thing, every single statement in relation to every other one. So I remember it absolutely. Washington said, 'As a result of our revolution, we have disengaged ourselves from involvement in the chaos of Europe.' His last word was that we not engage in foreign alliances. Well, we held on to his words until the First World War. And then we canceled the Declaration of Independence and rejoined the British conquest of the planet. And so we are now on one side of the pyramid. We've moved from one to two. We are politically, historically, now a member of one side of an argument. We do not represent that principle of the eye up there. And all of our concerns have to do with economics and politics and not with the voice and sound of reason."

Serious and sincere education about the 1776 artwork ideals of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America in forming the 13 states working together. An attempt to deal with the banalization of the topic that has happened and grown very popular since 1910's or so.