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"Don't accept your lot in life, I sincerely command you to to aspire and overcome!" - Gary Ambrose, Founder of Ambrosia

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A SHORT HISTORY OF 'ASPIRE'
  • First published in 1921: Gary Ambrose's non-fiction self-help pamphlet set a brush fire in the State of Pithlachussetts.​
  • Determined to build upon the success of the pamphlet he expanded the pamphlet into a book in 1925. It was both a critical and popular failure on the national level.​
  • In 1930 Gary Ambrose began orating old and new passages of his pamphlet over radio airwaves, leading to a popular movement around Ambrose's political aspirations.​
  • Ambrose released the second edition of Aspire in 1932. Still a critical boondoggle, radio listeners committed to a campaign of buying multiple copies and sharing them with friends and family.​
  • Becoming the first politically Independent President of the Westernesse States in 1936, Gary Ambrose mandated that his book be read by all college and high school, as well as approving junior additions for ages 11-15, 7-14, and 1-6 aged students.​
  • In 1940, coinciding with national elections, 'Aspire' became the basis of the Ambrosian Progressive Party (APP). With political dominance through the decade and a half, the Progressives carried the Westernesse States through the 1950s Great Northern War - adopting the new national name of Ambrosia during the conflict.​
  • Perished in 1956 the flooding source of Ambrosian Progressive inspiration died with Gary Ambrose. A successor failed to command the ambitious and overstretched economy of the nation and the Westernesse States of Ambrosia experienced its "Great Collapse".​
  • After a decade of political wrangling, Westernesse Constitutional Party President Carson Engellyn ordered the removal of 'Aspire' from the desks and libraries of all Department of Education funded schools in 1969. It remained in public libraries and was a perennial best seller in the persisting nation still known as Ambrosia.​
  • In 1982 a Progressive led congress authorized the re-introduction of the second edition of 'Aspire' into public schools. This was struck down by a Constitutionalist President.​
  • In 2020 Ambrosian Progressive Party candidate for the Presidency Bobbi-Lynn Suthers promises to place 'Aspire' on every public school desk, and funds the publishing of a Third Edition with approval of the Ambrose Estate.​
KEY CONTENTS OF 'ASPIRE'

Physical Culture: The original Aspire Pamphlet heavily focused on gymnastic routines, body weight exercises, and dieting. While this was irrelevant to most first readers of the pamphlet, later it became a deeply relevant to the Ambrosian Era culture and tradition in athletics and sports in the Westernesse States.

Politics: Gary Ambrose advocated for an all for one system. When he became President he ensured he was elevated to dictator, though his teachings and ideology encouraged intense democratic competition. Ideally anyone could lead any aspect of society, but clear measures of merit had to be set before popular decision. Ambrosia was thus an early adopter of homosexual and abortion legal immunity, as they were believed by Gary to overcome crippling moral pitfalls in the way of innovation.

Economics: Ambrose contended that money was a "social fuel" that should power the "societal machine". Failed interventions, heavy and many, may have led to the 'Great Collapse' of Ambrosia.
 

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The Policies of Gary Ambrose
  • "EVERY FAMILY DESERVES A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD AND ACCESSIBLE TOOLS TO CREATE": Although accused to be and associated with Marxism, Gary Ambrose never referenced Marxism or his Leninovist contemporaries as a source of influence. Ambrose never advocated infringement on private property, though he was an enemy of large banks, corporate monopoly, and predatory towards inheritances. In the era of Ambrose's Presidency many public spending initiatives were undertaken to pave national highways, railroads, and tenements; however most of these were actually completed by contracted companies, and most of these companies persevered to fill the shoes of monopolies Ambrose had crushed after his death.
  • "MY NAME, MY NATION MUST EMBODY ME: OVERCOMING THE ODDS AND TURNING BACK TO OFFER A HAND UP": Noted as a demagogue by historians, Ambrose created a cult of personality in his radio and later political performances that swept the Westernesse States into a unified nation of "Ambrosians". By identifying and celebrating what these states had in common Gary Ambrose forged a common identity among the Westernesse States, and centralized power in the federal government away from counties and states. The themes of nationalism that Ambrose set out continue to be a source of tension for other Occidental nations and the world, especially with Thaumanticists and Gallo-Germanians. Ebb and flow, this impetus to compete with the world remains in the national psyche.
  • "THE PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEY WANT AND I AM CONVINCED THE STATE ONLY EXISTS AS AN INSTITUTION TO GET IN THEIR WAY": In 'Aspire' Ambrose admits to being influenced by Touyou philosophers and was an early supporter of the Anti-State. It is unclear whether Ambrose intended to further align his nation in name or substance with the East, or if it was a policy meant to court Eastern industrial giants as they would exchange favorably with Ambrosia. Notably, before his death, Ambrose was working on introducing a "liquid democracy" model as seen in Touzen and the Anti-State, however this endorsement system was never realized.
  • "I NEVER PRAYED FOR MY SUCCESS - I ROSE UP AND SEIZED IT": Ambrose was an atheist who insisted that references of religion to be removed from public schools. However, Ambrose never instituted a 'State Atheism' model like the Thaumantic Republics. Catholicism had been the State Religion of the Westernesse States prior, and the re-introduction of faith into politics has been a contention ever since Ambrose's demise.
  • "AMBROSIANS OUGHT TO LIVE FOR A HUNDRED YEARS": Gary Ambrose placed a serious emphasis on researching nutrition and educating the public on diet and exercise recommendations. Alcohol, tobacco, and entire food groups were taxed nearly out of existence in the Ambrose era though they have returned with a vengeance today. Centered on stretching and Kadikistani kettle bells, legacy gyms of the Ambrose era stand in brick buildings today still running similar programming.
 
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