Squonk,
It has been said that America is the first great world empire to go from
it's period of
adolescence to its decline without an intervening period of maturity.
There is some truth in this statement. To me America will always have a
child like quality.
Without American 'culture' Squonk we wouldn't be conversing.
There would be no Internet. Man would not have walked on the moon. In itself
you might say 'big deal what's moon rock ever done for me?' Well the
resulting leaps in technology lead to the Information age and provided us
with weather satellites which save many thousands of people every month.
'America' can brassy and arrogant and very very ignorant. Its back to the
'Indian' thing. Their cultural reality can be very grating to foreigners but
then that's no less true than many of the negative things that have been
said about the English, the British, the Europeans, The Indians...
Any nation that is partly founded on the pursuit of happiness is going to
have problems controlling degeneration.However, writing off the whole deal
sounds like Richard Rigel talking.
Mk
--M a r k L u c a s
l u c a s - d i g i t a l . c o m
----- Original Message ----- From: <SQUONKSTAIL@aol.com> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 10:50 AM Subject: Re: MD I am an American
> Hi Mark. > I am not American. > I don't like American values and there is very little culture in it. > > America has just about had it as a cultural entity; the last great cultural > phenomenon was modern jazz, and that is rooted in European and African > traditions. > > To state that America is the greatest nation on Earth shows an ignorance of > history, culture, and values of an astonishingly arrogant nature; a nature > which has helped lead us to where we are today. > > I talked of the tragic character in an earlier posting; now the tragic > character of the American holds the safety of the world in it's hands. > That is a most depressing thought. > > Squonk. > > In a message dated 9/16/01 9:51:05 AM GMT Daylight Time, > mark@lucas-digital.com writes: > > << I truely am an American. Thanks to the winning effects of American culture > I > speak and think American. Thanks to a lifetime of American movies, books and > television many of the 'surface' values of the United States are also my > own. > > I sincerely believe that the United States is the greatest nation on earth. > I do not think it is perfect. When I saw the recent poll results that said > that 96% of American's would be willing to enter a War to take revenge for > Tuesdays massacre I could only think of the lesson the Israelis are teaching > us on a daily basis. They recipricate every evil perpetrated against them. > The revenge killings keep the fires of terror fuelled they have never put > them out. > >> > > > MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org > Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ > MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net > > To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: > http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html > >
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