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kramus · 09-04-2005, 05:48 AM

I think this is less a sign of decline and more a symptom of an unfocussed and rather confused state entity in need of transformation and reassessment. The profligate expenditure of energy in disparate and sometimes conflicting goals needs to be reevaluated with an eye towards just what USA believes it's core identity is.

The opinions of the wider world do not have to be taken as America's own. Their opinions are useful in showing what blind spots exist in the American psyche. After all, the world is made up of nations that have their own identities, goals and agendas which can be diametrically opposed to values important to America. The dialogue between nations is important in allowing progress world-wide while allowing the expression of individuality - a truly human thing we must accept as a part of our race. For we are all individuals, and we are social animals, and we are slowly becoming aware of the potentials that those two factors create.

Now America really ought to use this time to give itself an opportunity to grow in a positive human way. With a long view that involves something more than universal Republic Democracy or whatever her current banner is. America is an amazing, wonderful place. It is also conflicted and self-damaging and has a tendancy towards enormous blunders while trying to fulfill it's inchoate goals and desires.

America can be the way of the future for many many generations to come. It is a positive beacon in ways innumerable for billions of people. It also is a scary, dangerous, half-blind and almost psychotic giant. I want America to be healthy and happy because I truly believe that it is the existing thesis of superpower direction we need as a race. However, there is a synthesis required - a transformation that must happen - to allow America to continue to be the positive beacon instead of the complex lesson it so far appears to be.

No, this is not the collapse of America as a superpower. This is one of many warnings however that America must wake up, grow up, and be all that it ought to be. Which is quite different than being all that it can be.

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09-04-2005, 05:48 AM	#8 (permalink)
kramus loving the curves Location: my Lady's manor	I think this is less a sign of decline and more a symptom of an unfocussed and rather confused state entity in need of transformation and reassessment. The profligate expenditure of energy in disparate and sometimes conflicting goals needs to be reevaluated with an eye towards just what USA believes it's core identity is. The opinions of the wider world do not have to be taken as America's own. Their opinions are useful in showing what blind spots exist in the American psyche. After all, the world is made up of nations that have their own identities, goals and agendas which can be diametrically opposed to values important to America. The dialogue between nations is important in allowing progress world-wide while allowing the expression of individuality - a truly human thing we must accept as a part of our race. For we are all individuals, and we are social animals, and we are slowly becoming aware of the potentials that those two factors create. Now America really ought to use this time to give itself an opportunity to grow in a positive human way. With a long view that involves something more than universal Republic Democracy or whatever her current banner is. America is an amazing, wonderful place. It is also conflicted and self-damaging and has a tendancy towards enormous blunders while trying to fulfill it's inchoate goals and desires. America can be the way of the future for many many generations to come. It is a positive beacon in ways innumerable for billions of people. It also is a scary, dangerous, half-blind and almost psychotic giant. I want America to be healthy and happy because I truly believe that it is the existing thesis of superpower direction we need as a race. However, there is a synthesis required - a transformation that must happen - to allow America to continue to be the positive beacon instead of the complex lesson it so far appears to be. No, this is not the collapse of America as a superpower. This is one of many warnings however that America must wake up, grow up, and be all that it ought to be. Which is quite different than being all that it can be. $.o2 __________________ And now to disengage the clutch of the forebrain ... I'm going with this - if you like artwork visit http://markfineart.ca