There's a lot of talk right now about America no longer being the greatest power on the planet, no longer the top country financially. Donald Trump said it to Letterman last night, sure, but it's been in the air for most of my life, slowly sinking into America's mindset, very slowly becoming a reality we can accept, but now that it's right in front of our faces we're suddenly starting to react as though we had no idea.
Last night I saw an ad paid for by some group that was not willing to let America step down gracefully. It was set in a Chinese classroom and showed a professor lecturing the class on why great empires always fall, eventually focusing on America, ending his lecture by saying "and now they work for us." The students laugh.
While I'm under the impression the ad was more along the lines of a scare tactic, it did raise valid points about our current economic situation, and I felt perfectly comfortable in the reality it presented. Personally, I think it's about time America stepped out of the seat for a while, took some time to remember what it is, how it got there, why it's not there anymore. Instead of blaming the world around us for our own problems, it's time for us to turn inwards and really look at just what we've become and what we can do to better ourselves as people, as a nation, as an entity.
That or open our borders and declare the land free to any and all that wish to try their hand at survival.
So many people seem to think it's vital that America remain "the best," but in the eyes of many, that hasn't been the case for years. We're judging our greatness on our financial matters, on our money, others are judging our greatness on our humanitarian actions, or lack thereof. We've gotten lazy, we've gotten fat (well, I haven't, but that's not because I'm better than anyone else, I'm just too lazy and broke to eat well), we're raising our children to be celebrities, not Earth-shakers. We teach laws, not ethics. We want our kids to win Oscars, not Nobel Prizes. We want our kids to be dancers, celebrities, media darlings, not leaders, helpers, humanitarians. Our priorities no longer involve bettering ourselves as a species, instead we've focused on how to become as comfortable and as happy as physically possible, and that's a good reason to fear for the future we're creating for those that follow us, and I'm among those to blame. I want to be comfortable and popular as well. My thoughts never concerned the betterment of those around me, the improvement and evolution of our species, my thoughts have always been self-serving and self-pleasing. I want to change this, but I fear I am too weak. I would like to continue on the path I have chosen in some way, but I can no longer follow a path to fame. I want to make my parents proud, I want to leave something, some tiny piece of wisdom, some idea, something that can make the lives that follow mine just a little bit easier. If all I can provide is a good laugh or a lesson to learn, I suppose that's good enough. America needs to take some time to step back from its lofty delusions, so do I...
And for those that didn't already know this, namely stand up comics, the reason women are different from men is because they're raised different from you. Men are raised to desire, women are raised to BE desired. I think it's high time we start raising people to decide for themselves if they want to continue the human race, not make them feel obligated from the moment they're aware of their own genitals.We're still trying to find the best way to prepare our children for the trauma they will face as painlessly as possible, but we're simply finding more subtle ways of traumatizing them, making it harder and harder for them to understand anything because we're programming so deep.
It took me over twenty years to begin to understand why the things I was told were wrong were considered wrong, would it have taken effect immediately if I had been told differently?
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