| but instead of sterotyping blacks or yellows or reds,
we lump people together based on the borders.
mexicans are slow and lazy,
the french are great cooks & lovers
but lousy fighters,
americans are war-mongering imperialists,
etc.
just racism
disguised as concern for humanity
but hatred is not far away.
Misplaced nationalism - reminds me of that big loud thing in Europe a little over fifty years ago before we started into our wars.
However, I just saw something in AdBusters that showed the U.S. defense budget being larger than the other 13 largest in the world combined. Wow. It kind of does make it feel like we're fighting the planet. You know me, I don't like war, but I see that it's something (one of the dumber somethings) that humans do to gain/maintain power. To be honest, I'm not nearly as concerned with our wars as the mass genocide committed to American Indians hundreds of years ago, and I think they should get a ton of land back. Give 'em everything from the Rockies to the Appalaichans - it'll be just like The Holy Land only with more area and a larger budget.
My point here...while wandering a bit...is that while I hate what my government sometimes does, and while I hate the wars we've been in (prettymuch all of them, not just the last 50 years, we've been imperialistic for longer than that) and while I may even hate myself sometimes for profiting off of those wars, it is what it is. We could stop war now in which case we would have a massive retaliatory effect from the damage already caused. Selfish? About my own life? You betcha'. If it's us or them, it's going to be us; I hate it to come to that, but it is seeming like the only way. It's as if people think if the U.S. was gone conflict would stop.} |