My feelings towards the USA are extremely conflicting... Actually they are deep ambivalent because I can't come to terms with the growing visceral sense of disgusted disbelief!
I once deeply esteemed the States for their perceived inner freedom. Substantially, this freedom, is not because they are innately better than us in Europe, but because they do not carry the weight of such a long and heavy past. Europe’s history, full of glories and immense brutality, burdens us. This history has made us cautious, clinging firmly to the experienced beneficial path. Consequently, truly radical change—daring to leap into the "completely out of the blue" —is often a rare or impossible choice.
Not so in the States. This capacity to dare is why they achieve scientific discoveries that might take Europe an eternity to reach.
And yet, this blessed capacity to dare, however, is two-edged. This very same boundless freedom now exposes the terrible price they are paying. When freedom lacks fair constraint, it inevitably leads to a void of rules—rules that, in a civil society, are meant to facilitate coexistence and prevent the predators among us from prevailing.
It is not that civil laws do not exist in the USA, of course they do. But having chosen, as their distinctive motto: "making money at any cost," this attitude has increasingly disregarded every moral rule. The laws have eventually bowed before this totally insane goal.
Now we see powerful men reaching the highest offices through lies! Only ignorant minds can truly believe that capitalists will care for the wellbeing of the people.
"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." [John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), British economist]
Oh yes, they did make beautiful promises: shouting that it was about time to bring justice and stop the privileges of the super-rich!
But they, themselves, are the capitalists, the mega super-rich! They would cease to be capitalists if they prioritised the welfare of everyday people!
Unfortunately, this same working class of everyday people, was simultaneously abandoned by the political group that should have been its own representative.
This alleged "party of the people", having benefited from their parents' hard work, are now too busy being pleased with their own smart, well-educated minds (I have a lot to recriminate about the quality and the result of their education!).
In any case, the end rusult is that this class, allegedly of the people, doesn't resonate at all with the everyday people, now! These are too simple minded, too gross and down to earth to be able to understand the finesse of their highly articulated eloquence!
Ironically, this is the very same feeling expressed for the "gross super rich", so ridiculously uncultivated, you can only laugh at them, especially with their ignorance and, yes, their spelling mistakes. Can you imagine they even called the princess of Wales: the princess of Whales!
And yet, in spite of being so far apart, these two resonate on the same wavelength. The "gross super rich" and the "gross working class" have the same kind of "gross" energy. What a gift for the mega super rich! They can "communicate" in the same language! They are the best playmates! Too bad that in one group there are the predators and in the other one the preys!
What else can I say? What else can the world say watching the USA sink? We can only hope they will manage after all!
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