I would like to apologize to the world for being from the American territories.
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America (or, to deflate the American ego, "the United
States part of America") has destroyed everything it has
touched, and turned it into a stuffed toy, a product
jingle, a late-night "risky" show.
We embrace the cultures of the world, for they probably
have something great we can put in a California wrap, or
some excellent "primitive sounding" music we can put on
to show how open-minded we are.
Yes, America is disgusting, on three levels:
I. Physical
The entire landscape is now strip malls, department
stores, drive thrus, liquor racks, convenience stores,
outlet malls and concrete, plastic, metal, concrete,
concrete, concrete.
We get sicker every year as our industry - mostly United
States industry and unregulated collaborators in Mexico
and Texas - pours literally millions of tons of waste
into our environment. It's not the easy stuff we used to make, from
burning coal and wood. Now it's
invisible and creates mutations, and from those, cancers.
But we'll die with the latest in home electronics, plastic housewares and
entertainment titles.
II. Social
Our collective mentality is guilt, so our behavior
pattern follows thus:
A. Expect guilt, so have shame, thus attempt to
compromise or pacify in every situation.
B. Consequently, situation gets out of control and the
individual ends up serving compromise motives.
C. The individual resents that his or her own desire was
not acted out, becomes resentful, and thus acts out in
one of two ways:
1. passive: subtle sabotage, petty quarrelling, dilatory
behavior, disorganization, refusal to make decisions,
resentment, smouldering hatred. 2. active: insane behavior, destruction,
hatred,
violence, sodomy, active hatred.
D. Society spanks back with its multitude of people with
no better purpose to serve than feeding their own egos the
gratification of making someone else conform to the
"group consensus ideal." Often these enforcers are the most beaten
themselves and act from
inner spite (see C2). E. The individual becomes penitent,
and even more guilty. Back to A, but let's call it A1
because this is a new generation of A, in which the
stakes of guilt are much higher. F. At some point, AN becomes unstable and
a mental
breakdown occurs; a new personality modification allows the individual to
avoid similar humiliation by avoiding any conflict
related to the punishment (D).
This is the cycle found in: crime, welfare, drug
addiction, obsessive sex consumption, Christianity, Judaism, Islam and
other
guilt-based religions. Religion also contains "morality"
which society agrees is a good foundation. This religious
foundation to society tells us that there is a group consensus ideal
behavior to which we
must conform, or feel guilty. If we feel guilty, we can
submit to the group and be forgiven, and therefore accept
less power in exchange for fewer instances of conflict.
In other words, "OBEY."
III. Individual
The cowering individual, a conflicted festering soup of
guilts, conflicts, emotions, desires, and ideals smothered under
a thick meal of social conditioning that prevents
analysis of the machine of the mind, and from that, liberation from its
boundaries. As most
religion, politics, and government entirely encourages the
individual to externalize behavioral decision-making, using symbols or
other people as reference points, most individuals are
unable to make decisions including those required for introspection.
Because no one can make decisions, they fumble and then
blame others, consequently dedicating their lives to pet
causes and resentments. But does anyone actually do what
they want to do?
Luckily, if you serve a corporate society, all you need
to do is get up and go to work. Hit the drive thru,
corporate health care, shooting range and adult news-stand, because
Amerika is prosperity.
America grosses out even Americans. Democracy means that
while it's under our control, it's never under our control, since
the "other" (whoever they are) somehow won half the votes
and so there's no real plan only a series of compromises. So what do we
do? We
apologize. And then try to purchase your time for goods
and services.
IT'S NOBODY'S FAULT!!!1!
Huh? Did you say something?
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