Thought I Would Share This

[JAH]

This is not an attack, pls watch all of it.

i liked it, hope u do too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h__uutzcQXc

Edited July 23, 2012 by JAH

[Bogleg]

Someone else already posted this elsewhere in the forums. In any case, it's a great show (The Network) and this particular excerpt is a poignant (and IMHO accurate) assessment of the United States. We aren't the greatest country in the world anymore. But we could be.

 

We are consumed with vitriol. We are self-centered and unforgiving. We believe everyone should be able to pull themselves up alone. We no longer seem to believe in the basic principal that we have guaranteed rights, and that those rights should be protected at all costs, not squandered in the face of fear. We have a government run by people who just want more and want it now, not by a government that seems to truly believe in the greatness of our possibility. We have a country filled with people who fear education, who fear anything different from themselves, who are eating and drinking themselves into a healthcare crisis that will only get worse with each generation. We have engineered food into unhealthy packaged nonsense in spite of having the greatest farming resources in the world.

 

We are divided. Our elected officials and the pundits who get rich off of them endeavor every day to keep it that way. Division equals money to those that can yell the loudest. We are so disillusioned with our government and the process by which we choose it that a huge percentage of Americans don't even vote, let alone take part in the candidate selection process. We have the greatest natural resources in the world, and as long as they aren't in our own back yard, we don't care what happens to them.

 

Quite frankly, Americans are scared. Scared to lose what they have as it slowly slips away from them. Scared to speak up for fear of being yelled down by some belligerent extremist on the right or the left. Scared to take risks, when risk taking is what has always made this country and it's people great. We cry about a 4% increase in taxes being proposed by our government but don't bat an eye when they pass legislation allowing them to tap our phones or come into our homes at will. Our government and the media that gets rich off of them and us dissembles constantly and diverts our attention from the basic things that have made our country great.

 

We accept cheaper, less quality goods from foreign countries and allow American workers jobs to disappear as a result, then cry about it as if we, as consumers, have no power to say anything about it. We are, in short, a society consumed with whatever will make us feel better right here and now, with no direction or vision for the future, for ourselves or for our communities. Whether it's the quick and easy pre-packaged foods we eat made from all sorts of engineered former-foodstuffs or gratification via entertainment as opposed to art (and you can read R. G. Collingwood's "The Principles of Art" to see the difference), we live in a world that is a suck hole for our emotional energy, and we get zero return on our investment into it.

 

Like the clip says - we used to aspire to greatness. We don't anymore. That movie Idiocracy is actually happening to us.

[Yop]

snail and aligot are are awsome

[Sykorsky]

wow! in any case, autocritic ability makes america one of the greatest country!