Reply #39: Product of "Defensive Consumerist Plague"?? [View All]

"It must be the product of the "I, ME, MINE" American education system and the defensive consumerist plague that so many are unable to critically dissect this sentence:

"Till then many wait, hope and fervently pray to their many Gods that more and more Americans (and it may be your father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, husband, wife, cousin, uncle, aunt, friend, lover) are killed in conflicts they have wrought on the rest of the world in the false name of "Democracy".""

The "Defensive Consumerist Plague"?? What exactly is THAT? Something your own education system indoctrinated you with?

"Jacob is NOT "wishing" death onto Americans, he's simply stating a TRUTH.

You will excuse me for pointing this out to you, but my own "critical dissection" of Jacob's sentence reveals to me that he is most certainly wishing death upon Americans. He is not stating anything in that sentence except his own wish that Americans die. More and more Americans die.

THAT is little more than pure, unadulterated Hatred.

"*America's policies have rained death and destruction globally in the "name of democracy.""

It is unclear to me whether you mean the policies of George Bush or the policies of all American Presidents. If you mean all American Presidents, then you, too, are blinded by your own personal hatred of the United States. Did Jimmy Carter's policies "rain death and destruction globally"? Or how about Bill Clinton's? "Raining Death and Destruction globally"? Such hyperbole!

"Anyone with a centiliter of sense is painfully aware of that FACT and what a bogus pile of bullshit the WHITE COWBAY HAT is."

I suppose. But I do have a difficult time knowing what it is, exactly, that you are talking about here. White Cowbay Hats? If you are suggesting that the United States always acts in its own interests, I certainly agree. But you will also agree with me, I hope, that every country in the world acts in its own interests.

"Many too many Americans cannot even locate another country on a map and think New Mexico is "south of the border." If that level of ignorance is pointed out, they simply don't even give a shit as long as their sattelite dish picks up "Survivor, Jerry Springer" or "MTV."

It is difficult to determine whether you are upset that all Americans are not quite as smart as you are or that some Americans prefer to entertain themselves in ways that you find too low-brow, or that you simply harbor hatred for America and the people who live here.

Sure, there are lots of Americans who can't locate another country on the map. So? What is your point? That Americans live in a degree of isolation from the rest of the world that is different from someone who lives, say, in Finland? OK, but so what?

I have travelled overseas, and I am always amazed by the lack of knowledge about the United States by people who have never been here. All people -- and not just Americans -- could benefit from a more accurat epicture of people with whom we all share this planet.

Your portrayal of Americans as little more than uneducated, slack-jawed doofuses who care nothing for what is outside our borders and who care only for cheap gas and Jerry Springer, MTV, and Survivor is just about as accurate (and just about as helpful in promoting greater global understanding among people) as saying that all French people are effete cheese-eating snobs who would rather surrender their own country than fight to defend it.