Changing Tides
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Change is such hard work. - Billy Crystal
Just in time for the end of utopia month (or maybe a little late), I thought I would add a few of my philosophical musings about its antithesis, dystopia. I call it An American Prayer.
After September 11, 2001, our world had changed. I think everybody recognizes that. A few of my thoughts on this:
· We prayed to the gods of war that we may drink the blood of our enemies. We suffer a loss of blood and treasure that exceeded our original outrage.
· We prayed to the gods of wealth that we may be a land of plenty. We suffer the loss of fortune that our generation had never known.
· We prayed to the gods of wisdom that we may know the answers and solutions to our troubles. We suffer irreconcilable discord.
· We prayed to the gods of commerce that we may prosper and be productive. We have stagnated with no end in sight, filling only the coffers of the greedy.
· We prayed to the gods of our fathers that they may vanquish the infidels. Only to find we are the infidels ourselves.
Who says prayer doesn’t make a difference?
Let the rant quest begin.
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Date: 31/1/12 14:11 (UTC)As good of a case for atheism as any I've heard. :P
TBH, when I spoke of Americans as infidels I meant this: We as Americans have lost faith in our American beliefs. We have become an endless series of bumper stickers. We are unable to hear ourselves talk above all the noise we are making.
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Date: 31/1/12 14:57 (UTC)The USA has never understood that so long as it claims that what in reality are perfectly justifiable things in a lesser context are treated as existential wars for the survival of human civilization its credibility dwindles. As a bunch of thugs waving AK-47s shoot at it and reduce its psychological-military advantages it has to increasingly revert back to Massive Retaliation on the one hand or start removing some of its empire of bases on the other hand. The USA frankly put does not have the political or military maturity for empire but is under the impression that it does have it.
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Date: 31/1/12 15:11 (UTC)This isn't a case of "half full" vs "half empty" but more there are no drops left at the bottom of your glass.
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Date: 31/1/12 21:09 (UTC)There musts not be ne god!
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Date: 31/1/12 18:21 (UTC)really really bad, fast, but also how it could avoid that.
And then I realized the powerlessness of the single human, and the strength of hurt and rage, and sort of knew
it would become really bad.
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Date: 31/1/12 18:35 (UTC)And they did.
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