[wastoute]

The sad reality. What we have lost is far, far more than a “national identity” or any real sense of “America”. “America” is just one large Corporate Mall Headquarters. We seem to be able to do whatever we want, nowadays except have a safe community where we can raise our families and contribute to a society that is actually improving the world. We lost it a long time ago, seems to me and we just haven’t been able to let go and a handful of people are just taking advantage of us at this point.

[dfwgator]

Arthur Jensen was right:

You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immune, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, yuans, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU… WILL… ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and Democracy. There is no America. There is no Democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today

[AAABEST]

Jeez...just go shoot yourself already.

It's not that bad. I live in "a safe community where we can raise our families and contribute to a society." In fact, I'm doing better than ever... loving life, my country and having the greatest president imaginable.

You're living in a GOLDEN AGE. Lighten TF up for crying out loud.