Have you ever feared invasion?
A stranger’s hand on your wife in that quick uncertain moment you realise you may have been considering her your property all these years?
The enemy.
Who is he?
The armies that want to lay siege to your city.
And you are powerless and that powerlessness corrupts you as much as all the time you were in power.
From the founding of the America Republic in 1776 to the present day there has been fear of invasion within American culture: of entry into the body politic and economic and into the body-mind system by forces which might impose change, as well as fears of internal disruption which might subvert the national obedience consensus.
Since the British left in 1814, the national boundaries have been invaded militarily only once until 9/11: by Pancho Villa and forces from the Mexican Revolution, who burned Columbus, New Mexico, in 1916.
To separate out some of the fears, six basic categories predominate: