Quote from TGregg:
Wanna know why they are still tribes, living in huts, suffering from disease and all the other ills of a primative society? `Cuz they didn't have liberty,self reliance, property rights and Capitialism. These are the source of American Exceptionalism, making the USA the greatest country in the world.
The USA may or may not be the worldâs greatest country. That is a highly opinionated statement, that I encourage you to express. I , however, am stating a fact when I can say I love this America, and its people.
But have you noticed how many of the panty waste droppings on this site, the same ones who likely supported your presidential candidate, would strongly disagree with your opinion that we are living in the worldâs greatest country?
And also, Have you noted how many of those same bitch nâ moaners do not share the same love for this country that I have just expressed? Many will pound the drum of patriotism, but in all reality, they hate themselves, their so-called friends, family members and others in general.
I have gathered from your thesis a couple of possibilities.
1) Either youâve obtained your information from a National Geographic while taking a dump after late morning coffee, only to draw false conclusions from 3 page articles.
Or
2) Perhaps you are repeating someone elseâs point of view, such as your fatherâs, your grandmotherâs, or maybe itâs even the views of some dumbass whom you may admire, who regularly spouts rhetoric from a local bar stool.
As we shall see, your answer to your own question is only 25% correct, and that 25% is arguable.
You say the Yanos lack Liberty, but it is obvious, you are either confused as to what the true meaning of the word is, or you are simply lacking in social study skills.
You say that Americans have Liberty, but as others can see, your mouth is simply taking precedence before your ignorance.
Letâs evaluate the definition of the word:
1. Free from arbitrary or despotic government control.
Does this sound like America to you?
Since our lexicon lacks the tools necessary to articulate law in a way that leaves no questions, we rely heavily upon, and surrender our mercy to the control of government which arbitrarily settles our disputes as they arise.
-In other words, due to a lack of words, and also due to an inability to properly phrase subtleties of thought, our laws are left vague; and so we are left with a need for judges and juries to decide what is best for us, according to their interpretations.
The Yanos have no such disputes settled by anyone other than the parties involved within.
If Jabbafu feels like Gabano has wronged him or vice versa, one will simply try to kill the other in order to settle the dispute. If one party pisses off the other bad enough, the one who has offended may even be eaten.
So in regards to being free from arbitrary government control, it is actually the Americans who lack liberty, and it is the Yanos who have it.
âAhh, but Hoofy, What about the despotic part?â, you say?
Again, we shall examine the definition of the word:
1. A person who wields power oppressively, a tyrant.
This sounds awfully familiar to the way Phoenix Traitor , Scatafaggos, and many others on this forum have described our President, Barack Obama to be.
On the other hand, the Yanomamis have no such tyrannical figure looming over their wallets, threatening to take care of old , sick, lazy, and retarded people with their money.
So, in regards to freedom from despotic government control it is, perhaps again, the Americans who lack freedom, and the Yanos who have it.
Thus, it is little wonder why our founding father, Thomas Jefferson, clearly spelled out in the Declaration of Independence ~ that our right was not to Liberty, but only to the pursuit of it.
Property rights?
Lol!
In America, you have the right to pay for property, as well as the obligation to pay a tax on it every year, so long as a piece of paper has your name written on a blank line obligating you as the payee.
But when arbitrary government decides they have the need to control it, your right to that property can be to taken, and you will have to accept what despotic government gives you in return.
The Yanos have hunted, farmed, and gathered from the same land for centuries, maybe millennia, without obligation to pay some âbig governmentâ, for their right live off of the land.
Self reliance?
There may have once been a time when Americans possessed such an attribute, but those days have long since past.
Of course their will always be the exception, and a few will continue to be self reliant, off trapping some rodents from an icey mountain stream in order to survive.
The vast majority of Americans today, however, rely on computers to calculate, the internet to socialize, fast food service to eat, etc., etc.
The Yanos, on the other hand continue to be a hardy, hard working, and self reliant people, capable of using respectfully the bounty that nature provides to make a living.
Only now, as the world at large becomes , for lack of better words, âAmericanizedâ, the Yanomami are endanger of losing their self reliance, their property rights, and their liberty.
Since you now (hopefully) realize you have had it all but bass-ackwards, in regards to what the Yanomamis and the Americans have and have not, perhaps now can be a time for you to consider just some of the issues the Yanos have to contend with -
How bout relentless rainfall that makes it all but impossible to store grains for any reasonable length of time?
The rainforests by their tropical nature harbor diseases that would make gonorrhea and aids combined seem like a head cold; bacteria that would make the notion of having a staph infection seem like a wet dream; parasitic fish that swim up your penis and lay their babies in your nutsack.
I think itâs reasonably safe to say that you and many other so called âself reliant and rugged individualsâ on this site would likely be piranha poop within the first 6 weeks of your visit to the Amazon.
Hoof