https://twitter.com/AlishaGrauso/status/1337263317727866880?s=19
No culture but the culture pushed on you by gigantic companies trying to sell you merch. Superman v Batman is exactly the same as traditions that have been evolving naturally for thousands of years. Buying a Spiderman backpack is equivalent to knocking on wood or leaving a shot of vodka out in the woods for the leshiy. In Ant Man's name, amen.
The timeline definitely adds up, and it has to be the first celebrated example without a doubt--think De Tocqueville and so on. Does Weber make this argument in the Protestant Ethic?
On the other hand there are a lot of fuzzy definitions in play--are we talking culture in the Raymond Williams sense or in a nationalist sense? Can it be said that Euro-American culture existed before America? If not, wasn't there still continuity with Dutch and English and other European cultures, just like how there was continuity in French culture after the French Revolution? And also, industrial capitalism was only around 20 years or so at that point, so it's tough to argue America was founded under capitalism in a fully mature form.
Not trying to fact check for the sake of doing so, but because western history isn't my area and I'd be interested in learning more about this and other early capitalist societies!