It was a very special culture that created America. The rugged, do-it-yourself pioneer spirit was the result of a specific conjunction of individuality, pride, intelligence, and optimism that, frankly, is non-existent in most cultures.
Most cultures are tribal, collectivist, and have very limited goals: party and get laid. Even strict Islamists promise suicide bombers an afterlife of what? Partying and getting laid.
We are the last relics of a once-in-a-million-years mutation: a culture of self-reliance. The messy dregs you see about you are typically human. This is simply the jungle retaking the ruins. Nature. Be glad you got to see it before it was lost under the vines.
And then the artificial intelligence of machines took over...
“Allow me to get very ethnocentric here:
It was a very special culture that created America. The rugged, do-it-yourself pioneer spirit was the result of a specific conjunction of individuality, pride, intelligence, and optimism that, frankly, is non-existent in most cultures.
Most cultures are tribal, collectivist, and have very limited goals: party and get laid. Even strict Islamists promise suicide bombers an afterlife of what? Partying and getting laid.
We are the last relics of a once-in-a-million-years mutation: a culture of self-reliance. The messy dregs you see about you are typically human. This is simply the jungle retaking the ruins. Nature. Be glad you got to see it before it was lost under the vines.”
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Yep. Now I’m depressed. The truth hurts.
And the author of the article is right. We didn’t do enough. It’s so much nicer to blame everyone else. I hate when that happens.
To some extent, these traits were universally shared by all British Colonies. Aside from the US, traces remain in Australia.
Yes, it will be lost under the vines. My generation has no hope. As Baby Boomers, we were nurtured with the ideals of our history and the pride we took in reinforcing those concepts in our children. Well, they have grown and their children have become entangled in a society which values retreat in the face of any adversity and self-indulgence on a scale never before witnessed. Poor America. The Left has transformed this country into a nation of soulless sheep, not the NeoCons who lament what once was and what is fast disappearing. Their numbers have dwindled and they are powerless to reverse the course.
Predicted by Daniel Webster:
“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”