What's REALLY Wrong With America

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What are you maverick74 who doesn' t know the difference between "then" and "than " Jebus H didn't eyerone learn that in the 3rd grade?
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Jebus H Christ; how about choose and chosen there Mr. <s>Genius</s> dumb ass? (not to mention eyerone)

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EDIT: it unfair to make fun of a choose profession...
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Interesting article and I agree with much of it. However, I think it misses the root cause of our delima. It's not our intellect, it's a lack of character that has paved the road to ruin. We can't think our way out of this problem. That's not to say there's no room for some high brow ideas, there is. It's just that in and of itself won't be enough.
I also think we can source a good deal of this issue to the 24/7 media cycle. They fan the flames, pour gas on the fire, all day, everyday. By the end of it, we hate each other.



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The Crisis of the American Intellectual
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD

America has everything it needs for success in the twenty-first century with one exception: a critical mass of thinkers, analysts and policy entrepreneurs who can help unleash the creative potential of the American people and build the new government and policy structures that will facilitate a new wave of private-sector led growth. Figuring out why so many of our intellectuals and experts are so poorly equipped to play a constructive role — and figuring out how to develop the leadership we currently lack — may be the most important single thing Americans need to work on right now.

Regular readers of these posts know that I think that the world is headed into a tumultuous period, and that the United States is stuck with a social model that doesn’t work anymore. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, I don’t need to reproduce those arguments here; readers interested in the gathering storms can look here to see what I mean, and readers curious about the failure of the Blue Social Model can get started here.

There’s a lot of work ahead to enable the United States to meet the coming challenges. I’m reasonably confident that we remain the best placed large society on earth to make the right moves. Our culture of enterprise and risk-taking is still strong; a critical mass of Americans still have the values and the characteristics that helped us overcome the challenges of the last two hundred years.

But when I look at the problems we face, I worry. It’s not just that some of our cultural strengths are eroding as both the financial and intellectual elites rush to shed many of the values that made the country great. And it’s not the deficit: we can and will deal with that if we get our policies and politics right. And it’s certainly not the international competition: our geopolitical advantages remain overwhelming and China, India and the EU all face challenges even more daunting than ours and they lack our long tradition of successful, radical but peaceful reform and renewal.

Continued: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/12/08/the-crisis-of-the-american-intellectual/
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America's leaders need to take to the podium and explain it to us... and convince us the alternative is that we lose everything. (That's a hard notion to swallow, I know, ... unless you've read some world financial history.)
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We'll always have one guy standing up for (re)election saying we can spend our brains out now and have somebody else pay for it. And we'll always have a lot of people buy into it. Look at ponzi schemes that still continue even in this country. How #@&^ing stooopid does one need to be to know that any "risk-free" investment that returns double digits has to be bad news? But people line up for this thing every day.

We've suffered a serious decline in our abiltiy for critical thought. Used to be that if you did something dumb, you suffered for it. And you could do something so dumb that you'd starve to death or come to a significant level of harm. There were real penalties for being a moron. Now we have so many safety nets that life is just made up of wiffle balls in an inflatable playtoy.

Eventually one can make the world so perfectly safe that it becomes astonishingly dangerous.
 
"Eventually one can make the world so perfectly safe that it becomes astonishingly dangerous."

It already is. What they're doing is teaching a bunch of chickens that the fox is never going to show up. There are some very large, hungry foxes out there just waiting for the right set of circumstances.
 
Here, this post sums it up. The fact that there is even one person that could believe this shows just how totally fucked up this country is. When you have a population that is this brainwashed, there is little hope. Another 21st century house nigger. It ain't so bad here, my massa don't beat me too much, and when he does, I know's I deserves it.

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They actually did. Since the autoindustry was a strong driving force behind the American economy and since because of the too many compensations and benefits of the workers American automakers couldn't compete with their Asian counterparts, one can say that yes, in a way they did bring down the economy....

Thanks for pointing it out.
 
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