03-09-2009, 11:18 PM
That's a very good question, Myra.
I'm afraid the answer will not please a whole lot of folk.
"America" is, like all countries, a phantasm. It is a tribal construct designed to control, utilize with all possible efficiency, and maximize earning potentials of its assets.
Such an entity is as equipped to learn as is, say, a bag of hammers.
The system that incorporates it, of course, is self-correcting by nature -- which is to say, capable of quantifying, analyzing, and possibly benefiting from experience.
The individual and the national entity are natural enemies.
I'm afraid the answer will not please a whole lot of folk.
"America" is, like all countries, a phantasm. It is a tribal construct designed to control, utilize with all possible efficiency, and maximize earning potentials of its assets.
Such an entity is as equipped to learn as is, say, a bag of hammers.
The system that incorporates it, of course, is self-correcting by nature -- which is to say, capable of quantifying, analyzing, and possibly benefiting from experience.
The individual and the national entity are natural enemies.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene