Zzarchov
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I'd like anyone to compare the amount of wealth the extended periods of stability and the freedom from invasion and military conflict experienced by the United States of America to any other nation on earth
Freedom from conflict ignores all the conflicts on its own soil it has had. Wars with Britain, Mexico, Spain, a slew of Amerind nations, hell itself.
. With an enormous geographical foundation, the country of the United States has resource wealth in abundance....but according to history...not enough to satisfy Americans.
The same is true of European nations, of African Nations, or Arabian Nations, of Russia especially...
While Europe and much of the world has experienced decades of war and destruction that devastated infrastructures and populations the United States has had a far greater opportunity to manage and sculpt its culture and its people into something different.
And America did, by getting involved in those wars, it managed to keep the wars from its own shores. Its not some "wierd coincidence" that the two happened. Isolationism doesn't work.
I also find your expectation that American's aren't humans like every other human on the planet sad. People are people, there is no master race.
Instead of looking at each other like every human being is equal and just as entitled to opportunity and a decent quality of life...America has been just as guilty as any other nation on earth in promulgating hatred and practicing politics and militarism to the end of Americanism.
So... your logic is instead of treating everyone as equal, they act equal to everyone else? Thats a logical fault on your end.
With the best chance of building a society of human beings prepared to participate in the community of mankind and demonstrate to the world that militarism violence and greed are concepts evolving out of hatred and fear America conditioned its people to believe that they were above everyone and everyone else's position and entitlement. They have failed to address what Colpy points out is the propensity to slavery as practiced by many nations and cultures and the seeds of these poor choices continues to embroil the people of the United States in the twenty-first century. Americans have gone no where! If you listen to the propaganda of the American elite you'll hear them patting themselves on the back continually for American predominance in technology and particular space exploration... the truth is that while Americans are more than prepared to take credit for everything...it was Germans and Englishmen and Jews and many many nationalities that brought their skills and efforts to America. An American owes his Americanism to nationalities and cultures that the average American is only vaguely aware of as existing!
I think thats your problem, you don't understand what American culture is. It is the culture of the melting pot. When other people left their own cultures and nations to become American, that is the American strength.
Instead of feedig the world and making that technology available to everyone who needs it...America finds any way it can to "profit".
And why shouldn't America act in the same way as everyone else? Why should America cripple itself and be forced to give charity to those who give no Charity back? Why should America treat other peoples different than it treats it own? Why are other people somehow less able to feed themselves or invent their own discoveries? Its simply pretending the rest of the world are subhuman and less intelligent and need America to act as a nanny to them.
The same sentiment that even after having witnessed the atrocity of human slavery embraced the idea as something that would bring "profit" before acknowledging the evil of the practice. It may be and is likely impossible for anyone I've encountered so far here at CC to conseptualize the enormity of the possibilities and potential ....lost.
The atrocity of human slavery? Slavery is something that predated America and will outlast America and still goes on today, in many of those countries you say America should feed and give technology too. America ended slavery in its nation, the hands of any American alive today are clean from deeds of that era.
America and Americans have given themselves', their culture their government and their social institutions over...entirely to the metric of "profit". And we see time and time again how the pusuit of "profit" by America includes the appropriateness of militarism and poliferation of weapons.
Thats Human culture. It exists far outside of America, its not a uniquely American ideal and all peoples that are capable of militarism pursue it. Canada didn't end up fighting the Boers out of a desire to spread love.
These people don't want peace....
Well they certainly don't want to be fighting, else there would be a draft.
They want everything that belongs to everyone else and are prepared to take what they want by violence.
Never seen any proof of that in the Modern Era, violence is not an efficient way to get wealth, trade is. Violence begets more violence, it does not beget more money. That is one of the reasons America succeeds where Colonial Empires failed.
Now we could be satisfied with the ideology of Nazii Germany and their pal El Duce as grounds for arriving at a conclusion of definition with respect to fascism..... But the fascism of the politics of greed are far more insidious and the preparedness to lie to everyone including the people of their own nation....who are being sent to war on the basis of a lie and misdirection....a preparedness to paint everyone and anyone who doesn't succumb to the mantra of "American Interests".... as an evil-doer and a "threat" is what America wanted and what it got.
*sigh*
More power to those who'd fullfill Americas wishes.
