:idea: America: Cinderella and her Ugly Sisters
Once upon a time, the curiosity, intrepidity, and adventurous spirit of the descendants of a cosmopolitan civilization of Judeo-Greco-Roman origins, discovered a new continent that would grow in time, on the "downside" of Eden, economically.politically, culturally, and morally, into the most beautiful and fairest of her sex. But like all creatures who are made "in the prodigality of nature", she would ineluctably attract, and be victim of, the jealousy, envy, and hatred of the "ugly" world. Thus, the American Cinderella, at the peak and bloom of her economic, political, cultural, and military power, would draw upon herself the wrath and jealousy of her ugly sisters. This is in short the story of the vicissitudes and the fate of the American Cinderella in a hostile, enviable, and unequal world.
It's a stupendous fallacy, and tendentious to believe, that America is hated for its so-called economically exploitative policies, and its arrogant foreign policy, both of which, according to its critics, obstruct and prevent nascent nations from also basking under the sun of economic prosperity and political freedom. On the contrary, the main cause for this resentment against America by these nations, as well as by those with pretensions of global power, such as Russia, France, and Germany, which no longer perch on the top branch of the tree of political power, is the overwhelming and unassailable dominance that America exercises in the economic, political, cultural, scientific, and military spheres, over the rest of the world.
It's for this reason therefore wrong to premise, as her critics do, that only by changing these reprehensible and objectionable policies toward the less privileged nations and turbulent spots of the world , will America be able to stop the waves of hate from crashing against her shores-as if the emollient to hatred lies in benign actions.
Such analysis of the situation, however, is monstrously superficial and deeply flawed. The hatred against America has its roots in the curse of envy. It's America's conspicuous eminence in the above-named spheres, like Veblen's conspicuous consumption, that gives rise to envy among all peoples and nations, who cannot at this stage emulate it.
Once upon a time, the curiosity, intrepidity, and adventurous spirit of the descendants of a cosmopolitan civilization of Judeo-Greco-Roman origins, discovered a new continent that would grow in time, on the "downside" of Eden, economically.politically, culturally, and morally, into the most beautiful and fairest of her sex. But like all creatures who are made "in the prodigality of nature", she would ineluctably attract, and be victim of, the jealousy, envy, and hatred of the "ugly" world. Thus, the American Cinderella, at the peak and bloom of her economic, political, cultural, and military power, would draw upon herself the wrath and jealousy of her ugly sisters. This is in short the story of the vicissitudes and the fate of the American Cinderella in a hostile, enviable, and unequal world.
It's a stupendous fallacy, and tendentious to believe, that America is hated for its so-called economically exploitative policies, and its arrogant foreign policy, both of which, according to its critics, obstruct and prevent nascent nations from also basking under the sun of economic prosperity and political freedom. On the contrary, the main cause for this resentment against America by these nations, as well as by those with pretensions of global power, such as Russia, France, and Germany, which no longer perch on the top branch of the tree of political power, is the overwhelming and unassailable dominance that America exercises in the economic, political, cultural, scientific, and military spheres, over the rest of the world.
It's for this reason therefore wrong to premise, as her critics do, that only by changing these reprehensible and objectionable policies toward the less privileged nations and turbulent spots of the world , will America be able to stop the waves of hate from crashing against her shores-as if the emollient to hatred lies in benign actions.
Such analysis of the situation, however, is monstrously superficial and deeply flawed. The hatred against America has its roots in the curse of envy. It's America's conspicuous eminence in the above-named spheres, like Veblen's conspicuous consumption, that gives rise to envy among all peoples and nations, who cannot at this stage emulate it.
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