Please be simple

I think I should elaborate a little more about the beginning of what I talked about yesterday. The human and national perspective... See I'm reading this book that basically informs readers that all of our major policies that we have been taught have saved our nation, have really caused destruction in every corner of the world. The cold war and the reagan doctrine are what I've finished so far. Thinking about the millions that have died and the millions living horrible lives in misery because of these two great aspects of our culture, leads to me to believe that being a proud american is a putrid thing. So yesterday, when I said that caring about America isn't wrong, I may have been wrong not to say that caring about America and its means of survival mean we care nothing about the millions that die for it. And not die in a glorious war, but die because of the reverberations caused by our prideful policies. Fighting communism and terror are just guises for getting whatever the fuck we want, from whoever we want, whenever we want. We had very imperialistic motives at the turn of the 20th and into it, but really, what has happened that has changed any of that? We fought two wars that were necessary in terms of fighting evil, but that doesn't mean that we have become an honorable nation. The constitution and the efforts of the forefathers, the world wars and 9/11, have coaxed us into thinking that maybe we are a great nation; maybe we are. But if great nations cause misery for just about every other nation since its inception, then yeah, we are great. Or maybe we are great because we have and founded freedom (indigenous nations established it long before whites did). But we have a freedom built on markets. This means that markets have the freedom to go fucking crazy when it comes to making money, and though we have laws to regulate ways the money is made, it is still a free for all. We are free to be poor as shit too, free to be absolutely miserable. Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric was fired by his company because of a deal shot to death by the EU. In the wake of this deal's undoing, he began an affair that forced his wife's hand to leave him, but leaving with a shit load of his fortune. As laywers began to dig into the exact expenses, there were on an annual basis, 14 million dollars missing from the GE budget. Poof! out of thin air. They found that on travel expenses alone, Mr. and Mrs. Welch were spending $290,000 monthly. Once Jack Welch, a hero of the free trade world, was finally let go of, it saved GE stock holders 2.5 million monthly also. He was given a 10 million dollar flat in manhattan and alotted 7.5 million to furnish it. Now a future capatilst reading this may say, shit, he worked his way to the top, give the man a clap. When I say he was a hero of the free trade world, it was no understatement. Even before his retirement, business schools studied his techniques. 10 mil here, 10 mil there, being thrown around like a football, may seem like the american dream. But there is a dream inside the hearts of every other american that gets by on dollars a day. Work hard, get a degree, make something of yourself. Everyone other american can rot in their slums. But without even mentioning the poor in this country, the ones who are forced by regional, political, and intelectual limits to never make anything of themselves, there are others I'm talking about - they happen to be everyone else in the world. The Cold War was an extremely important part in our history. Fighting the evil of communism was top priority for half a century. Though we still talk about to this day, no one realizes that two big honchos, America and the USSR, facing off, aiming nukes at eachother, and vying to influence other countries with their doctrines, happened to be played out on a world stage. Let's put it this way. Team American Eagles, the all-star football team threw a major fuckin party bro. But their rivals, last years all state, the Russian Reds, showed up and a fun loving food fight and mascot stealing and house wrecking party ensued. When all was said and done, mom and dad's house was trashed! But, in our most important case of modern history, mom and dad's house was every other country besides Russia and America. Shit everywhere, people dead, governments toppled, and cultures ravished and destroyed, all to maintain the greatness and purity of Freedom. Once the scope of our global damage was fully realized in my mind, I felt entirely comfotable thinking from a human perspective, instead of a national one. I would like to know how the products I buy, and the lifestyle I live, is fucking up some other part of the world. I would like to know that my freedom is paid for by not just the blood of soldiers, but the blood of lands and people so far away and so much greater than myself. So should every American.

The State of Things

Maybe it's because I look at things from a human perspective, and not from a "national" perspective. But as I look back at the halls of history, all of the different nations, and all of the different eras, is not right of me to think that being a complete sell out to america and capitalism is just a bit wrong? Ardent Americans that blindly support the nation and refuse to ask questions that are hard to swallow should be easily viewed as poisonous to our species. Us good ol' americas have no outside perspective. The average citizen has no idea what the hell is going on in the world. We can no longer talk about things that may be the least bit challenging to the doctrine we've been raised on all of our lives. Remembering standing up in class everyday and pledging to the flag is a bit creepy to me now. Before I get carried away with this, let me say that I am not implying that patriots who care about America are wrong, or that anyone who says the pledge of allegiance is brainwashed. What I am saying is this, to be truly patriotic and prideful about our nation should go in hand with being knowledgeable about world affairs and our involvement with them. Two things that have shaken this nation to its core to this day are talked about like senseless acts of terror. They are Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Were they senseless? Was there no reason behind the attacks than a bunch of hate filled crazies flying planes into our ships and buildings? Can a group of people really base their suicidal efforts on the notion that they hate freedom and wish to dispose of all the shiny happy people blessed with it? Come now citizens, there has to be more to it than that. For the few americans who do watch the news, we hear a lot of things about celebrities, gas prices, immigration, things that are happening here on the home front. Sometimes we get a small glimpse of the quagmire and hell that is Iraq. The occasional suicide bomber kills 18 here, or the 10 soldiers die in helicopter attack there, is what we hear when it comes to the guts of Iraq. Either that or how democrats want to bring home the troops or end the war, but that I would consider home front business as well. But where is the news about why. Why this all happened? We know why their is a war on terror, but why do terrorists attack anyone to begin with? This is a mighty question and it deserves to be answered. Not by Bush or Obama but by me and you. We should know why. We should be equipped with the knowledge of why we are having problems with extremists any where at any time. If we knew, we could have avoided a two term wreck by the Bush dynasty and avoided 9/11 altogether. And the effects of 9/11 are not done. It's going to put Guilliani in the white house, and then we will have something to fret about like never before. At least I will. It's okay, we have Mtv and American Idol to quell the sting of the nightmare that is our state of things.