Nationalist antiquity arises necessarily from novelty

Evidence

Supposing ‘antiquity’ were, at a certain historical juncture, the necessary consequence of ‘novelty’? If nationalism was, as I supposed it, the expression of a radically changed form of consciousness, should not awareness of that break, and the necessary forgetting of the older consciousness, create its own narrative? — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 26

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The paradox that a radically new consciousness must generate its own invented past is a dense, paradigm-shifting formulation about how ideology manufactures its own history.
• STORYSTEM: Could seed a story about a newly-founded community or nation whose members collectively and unconsciously fabricate their own ancient history — the ‘newness breeds antiquity’ mechanism dramatized.
• XREF: connects to: Ethnopopulists manufacture rival national narratives about contested historical figures. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 37

Related

• Nationalism is modern in fact but ancient in claim, universal and particular (similarity 0.82)
• Nationalism’s invented antiquity structurally aligns with modern autobiography’s inner premises (similarity 0.82)
• The awakening trope explained the anomaly of Europe’s late nationalism by claiming antiquity (similarity 0.81)
• Nationalism must be read against prior cultural systems, not political ideologies (similarity 0.79)
• The nation emerges as a new subject of history distinct from the State (similarity 0.79)
• Ethnopopulists manufacture rival national narratives about contested historical figures. (similarity 0.79)
• Nations claim antique dynasties to disguise their modern provenance. (similarity 0.78)