Tuesday, October 13, 2009

American Decay


While witnessing the expected rapid decline of the Greenback, I am confronted with all that are wrong with the ideologies of the Americans.

First and foremost, let me give you a hint – Land of the Free. Did you get freedom? I can argue that freedom is the fundamental and critical flaw in the American ideology. From top down, democracy is the only choice for freedom seekers and it bogs down the system with inefficiency. Simply too many cooks spoil the soup and not to mention, majority of the people are incapable of differentiating propagandas and rationale. Most people are plain, bluntly put, dumb and ignorant. So the obvious problem is you have a country run by idiots chosen by idiots representing idiots. Now, if that is not a recipe for catastrophe, I don’t know what is.

Freedom accentuates differences in individual opinions creating controversies. The good news is the United States have found a way to resolve such. The bad news is, deny it all they can, the Godfather of terrorism is the one and only United States. Terrorism was created to rule. Being the leader of the developed world, whether by means of brute force, economic sanctions or political influence, the most powerful country in the world will do what it takes to keep its power. The difference is they can do it under the pretence of the protector of the greater good of mankind (ironic that they can make decisions for everyone) and they can sugarcoat their lies with lame reasons (yet no one dares to defy even though defiance will be futile as in Bush’s era). No other country is as nosy as the US which seems to think they can run every country better than they can themselves. One has to wonder how they get the time when their own homeland issues are unresolved.

For example, there is the creation of debt to buy what really can’t be afforded so every American can have a home and live the life they want. For some reason, they seem to believe that they can enjoy eternal economic growth at a greater rate than the interest of debt. In other words, they do not think they need to pay in the end (marked by the ridiculously trillions of national debt US owed). The question is who is paying for the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on space exploration, weapon enhancements and keeping Wall Street happy.

But somehow they have survived while other countries have not with the level of debt. Why and how? It’s really quite simple. The trigger-happy United States can conjure up any whack excuse to exercise their dominance. I might add, whoever came up with the idea to sell on fear is a genius. Selling arms of war to those in need is not only highly profitable, it also reinforces the need for US to be more totalitarian and to build more deadly weaponry which leads to even more need to sell arms of war. It’s a beautiful money making and power building cycle.

Wake up and smell the flowers, America. There are people living with less than a dollar a day, eating less than one meal a day, no home, no job and no future. They were born to live a slow and agonizing death. They are the results of the exploitation. There are other pressing issues of pollution and global warming, overpopulation, diseases and scarcity of resources which conditions are deteriorating by the second. You can preach freedom, equality and prosperity all you want, but at the end of the day, you better get your priorities straight because times are different and you are no longer the all almighty you once were.

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