Interesting take, but it ignores the eternal universal human truth that self-promoting politicians, executives, athletes, and artists have always used their money/power/celebrity to advance themselves and their cause rather than the common good. They normally dont even have the first clue about what the true common good really is. Even well-intentioned leaders always fall prey to unintended consequence. The War on Poverty spawned an even larger section of impoverished people in the US by allowing people to get government-paid poverty-level income for NOT working. That was simple lunacy by vote-crazed politicians. We have forgotten that the single most powerful incentive has always been hunger - hunger to be a better person than a useless slug. Instead, now the new rallying cry is: I dont want a job. I might lose my government benefits. Governments cant help their people by giving them things. Governments can only help their people by teaching them how to be self-sufficient. When he tells what America used to be, the speaker in this video relates the well-accepted myth that most Americans still want to believe. Lets just get this straight. America was never Camelot. Camelot itself, never existed on this earth. As an example, even into the 1950s, it was still quite acceptable for the majority white society to be openly racist against any minority group with a skin color that wasnt Lilly white. Was it then that we as a nation were so moral? Then someone please try to explain to me the morality of racism. I dare you. But I will also remind you that every racial group normally is quite racist towards other racial groups. Individual blacks have the same tendency to be racist against whites as individual whites have been against blacks. The same is true of all races. We are all equally flawed humans. We are also naturally drawn to our own clan. It is a natural human trait for leaders to groom their own son or daughter as a successor rather than an outside competent replacement with fresh ideas. Its a common history of governments around the world to promote family members into positions of power. And lets not forget that misery loves company. If our clan is NOT in power, we naturally feel that our clan is being oppressed. That perception becomes our accepted truth (even if our own victim mentality is what is really oppressing us). A victim mentality has always been a much more powerful tool of oppression than any intentional oppression actually was. The upside to our vast mental imperfection is that our countrys large-scale scandals remind us that no countrys borders hold Gods chosen people. Historically, that has been an often-touted, dangerous concept based on the flawed natural human propensity towards clan-ism. My country is better than your country. My people are better than your people. My race is better than your race. What a load of crap. No country is the greatest country in the world. There has never been such a country. The richest, most powerful nations are not the greatest. In fact, we are so spectacularly flawed that we discount the opinions and talents of short, fat, ugly people while practically worshiping the every word of tall, thin, beautiful people that really dont know the first thing about the first thing. Swing voters prove my point by being so easily swayed every election by well-spoken politicians selling their latest brand of snake oil. Wouldnt it be awesome for us to finally realize that our imperfections are our strength? We should really stop for a second to consider that to be true. While were on a roll, maybe we should also consider that our diversity is an equally powerful attribute. If all of us could just once stop blaming other people for our woes and see the truth in the mirror, wouldnt we be better people for having realized that epiphany? We were never perfect and certainly not perfectly moral and neither were our parents or grandparents. We just want so much to believe that we (or our past generations) once were. If we ever thought that about ourselves or our ancestors, we were fools to think it. There has never been a greatest country. Now lets get over ourselves and move on to improving our thinking skills and that of our children so that society advances rather than regresses.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:12:45 +0000
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