A New Improved America
May 21st, 2007Via: Fred On Everything:
Something is wrong with the United States. I think most of us have noticed it. There is a mortal rot in the country, made manifest by many little rots that are hard to integrate mentally yet are, I think, somehow related. The change is grave, accelerating, probably irreversible, and fascinating. Things are not as they were.
The United States is the most hated country on the planet, followed by, to the extent that there is a distinction, Israel. So far as I know, there are no other contenders. You can say “Who cares?†as many will say, or “Screw’em if they can’t take a joke,†or “I’d ratherh be feared than loved.†All very droll. Still, it is an interesting datum. No country ever lives up to its own PR, but there was a time when America was widely admired. Now, almost universally, it is seen as a rogue state. And is.
Research Credit: D
Humans, by nature, hate everything that is better than them. Keep in mind that The United States are not the main architechs of “what’s going wrong in the world”.
Firstly, some humans hate everything that is better. But others aim for that and try to copy that (see Japan for an example).
–> nobody in the world tries to copy the US of A any more.
Secondly, what makes you think that the US are NOT ‘the main architects of “what’s going wrong in the world”‘?
–> there is a huge consensus in the rest of the world that the US are exactly that.
who are the main architects of “what’s going wrong in the world?”
I mean, we couldn’t possibly find a correspondence between killing poor brown people and a financial system that is based on one of the seven deadly sins to the point of refining to a degree previously unknown to man a second of the seven deadly sins.
As for the ridiculous “humans, by nature, hate everything that is better than them” is simply not true. It sounds good and you can come up with lots of anecdotal (and morally vindictive) evidence, but sociological studies have only shown that humans actively seek or undermine to restore an equitable distribution when resources become concentrated. Could it possibly be that the poor brown people of the world simply want to keep their resources rather than having Greedy, Gluttonous Globalist Murkans from stealing them? If someone were stealing my food, home, etc., I’d sure as hell shoot at them!
d, I’m a little confused by which of the 7 deadly sins you actually mean:
pride: check
envy: check
wrath: check (especially post 911)
sloth: check (see also, “television”)
lust: check-plus
avaraice: check-plus-plus
gluttony: check-plus
How about
“I’m just a patsy!”
— Lee Harvey Oswald
or:
“I envy you. You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all – you live in the heart of the beast.”
— Che Guevara (1964)
slomo – lol, true, true… I was specifically talking about how capitalism’s underpinnings are avarice and gluttony. E.F. Schumacher says it far more eloquently than I can in his book Small is Beautiful.
D, by saying “but sociological studies have only shown that humans actively seek or undermine to restore an equitable distribution when resources become concentrated. ” don’t you acknowledge that the rich will not willingly distribute their ressources and that hatred will inevitably happen between the “2 groups”?
Anyway, if the United States finally collapse, we will find another evil to fight, until we realise that we are, as individuals, the architechs of our own problems.
I do believe that the instinct that push “the weaks” to hate the “the strongs” are the very sames instinct that turn “the strong” to be what they are.
We’re all trap in the belly of this horrible machine, after all.