Loborojo wrote:
plastickyness and phoneyness are considered to be esthetic values in American culture. Everyone here is 100 % authentic plastic. People who have no idea who you are hug you and call you " honey ", simply because they need something from you. Americans not only know nothing about the rest of the world; they have no curiosity about the outside world. ( Actually, what I said was inaccurate....they know one thing about the rest of the world....it's not as good as us, because we're the best ).
Everything here is a commodity. In education, this has triggered a race to the bottomn...universities and academic programs are in fierce competion with eachother to put out the most fluff in order to attract the greatest number of stupid students who will pay money for a rubbish degree. Working at an institution which caters to the lower end of the food chain, the results are appalling......in the apartments surrounding mine, as well as on campus, the students party all night long....hamburgers ( they tend to be generation XXXXL ), alcohol, cigarettes ( common among lower middle and lower class Americans ), and orgies. No studying. The naiive kids are buying into pom pom's deceptive claim that they can get something for nothing....by breathing the air here, they're becoming " leaders ". Sooner or later, I suppose the bloated American pack of blubber has to collapse due to its own weight....literally and figuratively....obesity-related health care spending will bankrupt us, and of course, our students will never pay off their student loans....they'll just keep charging more on their credit cards. Eventually, foreign creditors will stop lending us money, OPEC will start charging Euros for oil, and developing countries will stop using the dollar to denominate their foreign reserves. During our lifetimes, the collosus will tumble, and the causes of this will be internal instead of some imagined foreign enemy.
The people here are so stupid and illiterate that the labeling of Obama as a " Nazi " has gained widespread acceptance, simply because he's trying to give these stupid Americans health care. In any European country, his approval rate would be over 80 %. But in this backward country of bloated morons, the best US president of my lifetime is increasingly unpopular.
Please cast a commiserating glance to the north.
Admittedly the country has some major problems. As an American I am not convinced Obama is the best thing since Jewish rye bread since he is, so far, pretty much a front man for the financial crowd that caused the mess and his health plan has major faults and his refusal to deeply investigate and release full information on the criminal activities of the CIA and the Bush regime and his refusal to accept that Afghanistan and Iraq are total losses all add up to nothing very positive. But there are good people there as there are in any country. Whether they ever become effective is another story.
12 Sep 2009, 9:47 am
