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Re: Is this the Cartoon everyone is freakin' about...? Doesn't belong in these forums....

Posted by RGA (R) on February 15, 2006 at 19:05:03

In Reply to: Re: Is this the Cartoon everyone is freakin' about...? Doesn't belong in these forums.... posted by Mickey Bob on February 15, 2006 at 16:58:07:

Well the problem is in experience of travel and the value system you have grown up in. Very few people live another culture - they may VISIT via holliday and make snap judgements but to truly get to know another culture is not so cut and dry.

I have grown up in Canada which in a great many ways is very much like the United States and if we break down the society it is not clear to me that it should be viewed "as the best." On a spectacle or technological persepective it is the best -- we have running water, fancy shops, Starbucks on every corner, fast cars, computer technology out the ying yang -- yes we can all pat ourselves on the back for having lots of STUFF and being accessible to lots of stuff and even many people who are deemed "poor" still have some sort of shelter and a tv and maybe even a dvd player.

But all of this is still a judgement based off of Stuff we have and we work for big corporations in largely meaningless jobs so that we can be the first on the block to get a BMW.

Even the statement that America has been more good than evil is not really true. Nor would I say it's totally false but there is a fine line here as to what is good on the one hand that does not necessarily turn out to be a bigger problem later. The unfortunate fact remains that a lot of what America is about is built on the American Dream which is basically about the aquisition of Things and is associated with Freedom.

Corporations rule at this time -- they have all the money and Western governments (including Canada so don't think I'm being just negative to America) protect Corporations in an incredible way. Individuals under the corporate umbrella are practically untouchable so no matter how many people they kill (Ford Motor, PP G & E etc) the only punishment is slap on the wrist with puny drop in the bucket fines.

There are many cultures who value family and personal relationships above all else rather than the disconnect of living in an apartment for 12 years and not knowing your neighbors.

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