The two cultures in US America are "ethos culture" and "morality culture." Ethos culture is organized around the pursuit of the good life in the body. Morality culture is organized around the fulfillment of abstracted imperatives.

Thomas Jefferson is the exemplar of ethos culture. John Brown is the exemplar of morality culture.

The US Civil War was brought about by northern grey-wool-wearing morality culture's fulfillment of the abstract imperative for universal political emancipation.

Prohibition was the last political drama in which these two cultures were intact.

Ethos culture was "wet," and Morality culture was "dry." Ethos culture was content to break the law in spite of their personal lifestyle, and morality culture was content to use state power to enforce prohibition with machine guns.

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>break the law in *service to their personal lifestyle

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