#national unity

[notanothernogoodblog]

Forward, painted by illustrator Dean Cornwell in 1944 for the Pennsylvania Railroad, serves as powerful propaganda highlighting the vital connection between the American home front and the military effort during World War II. The poster is split into two main sections, each emphasizing a different aspect of national unity and the war effort.

The top portion of the painting depicts a massive military advance with American soldiers, tanks, and numerous flags pushing through the clouds. It represents the nation's military power and the urgent mission of fighting overseas. The lower portion grounds the image in reality, featuring a powerful Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive hauling freight cars, juxtaposed with a farmer operating a tractor in a field. This imagery symbolizes the crucial industries—agriculture and rail transport—that kept the supply lines running.

The composition visually connects the production of food and materiel with their delivery to the battlefield, reinforcing the idea that every contribution on the home front was essential to achieving victory. The poster was notably used in the railroad's 1944 calendar and was designed to boost morale, encourage productivity, and promote the purchase of war bonds.

[vox-anglosphere]

Union Day 2024 - What unites us is greater than what divides us.

[esthercullen]

[fdrlibrary]

“Remember that in these grave days in the affairs of the world we need internal unity--national unity. For the sake of the Nation that is good advice--and it never grows old.”

-  Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 4, 1938

[athousandgateaux]

All that is left of unity is nostalgia, but it speaks more and more loudly. Candidates present themselves as wanting to restore the national greatness, to 'Make America Great Again' or 'set France back in order.' At the same time, when one is wistful for French Algeria, is there anything one can’t be nostalgic about? Everywhere, they promise therefore to reconstruct the national unity by force. But the more they 'divide' by going on about the 'feeling of belonging,' the more the certainty spreads of not being part of the whole they have in mind. To mobilize panic in order to restore order is to miss what panic contains that is essentially dispersive. The process of general fragmentation is so unstoppable that all the brutality that will be used in order to recompose the lost unity will only end up accelerating it, deepening it and making it more irreversible. When there’s no longer a shared experience, apart from that of coming together again in front of the screens, one can very well create brief moments of national communion after attacks by deploying a maudlin, false, and hollow sentimentality, one can decree all sorts of 'wars against terrorism,' one can promise to take back control of all the 'zones of unlawfulness,' but all this will remain a BFM-TV newsflash at the back of a kebab house, and with the sound turned off. This kind of nonsense is like medications: for them to stay effective, it’s always necessary to increase the dose, until the final neurasthenia sets in. Those who don’t mind the prospect of finishing their existence in a cramped and super-militarized citadel, be it as great as 'La France,' while all around the waters are rising, carrying the bodies of the unlucky, may very well declare those who displease them to be 'traitors to the Nation.' In their barkings, one only hears their powerlessness. In the long run, extermination is not a solution.

The Invisible Committee, NOW, pg. 27-28

[notanothernogoodblog]

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris’s Victory Ball, 1781 is a romanticized oil on canvas (painted around 1929) that imagines a celebratory moment following the American victory at Yorktown. Set in an opulent ballroom adorned with garlands, chandeliers, and classical architecture, the painting centers on General George Washington dancing with Mrs. Henry Willis, surrounded by elegantly dressed figures in powdered wigs and ornate Revolutionary-era attire. Musicians play in the background, enhancing the festive atmosphere. Though historically improbable—Washington’s stepson died shortly after Yorktown—the scene serves as a symbolic expression of patriotic triumph and cultural pride. Ferris blends theatrical composition with mythic reverence, casting Washington not just as a military leader but as a figure of national joy and unity. 🇺🇸🦅

[vox-anglosphere]

Canadian provincial flags & dates of Confederation on a sheet of 1980 stamps

[kazifatagar]

Economic challenges should not weaken social harmony, leaders say....

Fadillah Urges Safeguarding National Unity Amid Rising Cost of Living Pressures