Reply #80: Of course not [View All]

[Clara T]

That's easy to see.

The need to adhere or worship at the altar of a national system of governance has always struck me as a bit of a pathology. And of course the question/answer should be extended so as to display the characteristics of The Insane Society and its origins. Now consensual validation has conditioned Americans to consider the collective pathology of its peoples to be normal, but this does not make that behavior any less sane.

The fact that so many people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, I do not mean that in any moralistic sense.

Also, people like to swim in the bathos of "Wanting the country back", but any intellectually honest and comprehensive view of America shows that it has been a pretty bloody, oppressive and earth destroying enterprise all along the way. It is happening at warp speed now due to technology and a particularly criminal administration (easily the worst ever) but the seeds for what we are experiencing at present were sown many years ago and have been nurtured all along the way by a certain American way of being that is completely wrapped in violence. The nostalgia for an America that never was is understandable but simply and sadly leaves us attempting to 'fix' something that was always broken.