Reply #14: Y'know, I don't agree with that anymore [View All]

I no longer buy the idea that Americans are weak, soft, and decadent -- or, as we say these days, fat, complacent and materialistic.

I DO strongly believe that most Americans are worked to fatigue, scurry around like lab rats on a treadmill, and use things like food and TV as comforts and tranqilizers. Most people are as unaware of how much material wealth this country has as they are unaware of politics. They are simply too worn-out (as a group) to want to pay attention to it.

But you're spot-on about the paradigm shift. Unfortunately, there is cataclysmic danger involved in that opportunity. So now we're dealing with exhausted, withdrawn, tranquilized lab rats facing disaster and horrifying mass death.

Not a very pleasant situation to work with, it is?

--p!