As the American Empire begins to wane, the States should begin relying on each other to forge ahead, which just shows you how vast the American market truly is all things considered, but the likelihood of the pre-eminence of large corporations over public and civic life looms like a shadow: they are the giants we have birthed in the largess of Federal subsidy, spoils of War, being predominantly unaffiliated with the problems that plagued Europe at the turn of the 20th-century— the Monarchies— a prospect to profit from such spoils or to take the lead was almost unavoidable in layman's terms. The evolution of politics and the visages of power in the throes of its mighty sway continues to fascinate and will continue to do so as long as I live
The transnational market through the Interstate has created such a large consumer base that we begin to see in a microcosm how America appears to others abroad, a giant in your midst. There are many interesting aspects to Japanese popular culture that I think touch greatly on this concept of Giants. You often see the large mechanized 'Zords' or most recently, large terrifying giants who eat people, and whereby the humans must live in fortified settlements to protect themselves in the Anime: Attack on Titan.
Sometimes it feels as if we are living the mythos of the Testaments in the Land of Canaan, where the Giants dwell in the Promised Land... and we seemingly are like locusts— just to borrow a bit of inspiration from your incorporation of Myth into our common times. Namely, the 12 Labors. What I find so remarkable about Myth is that in the West we often forget the power of the Christian one — it afterall, forced the Roman Empire to adopt it or face the consequences of moral degeneracy and decay, losing with it the popular support of the everyman. All things become transformed within the metaxu from absence: presence.
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