List of FAILURES's Journal: Global Citizenship

One of the things that I've felt ever since I was in highschool (Circa 1986) is that I am a citizen of the world. I was born in the United States to parents of a wide variety of nationalities (both white and non-white). I pesonally, appreciate other cultures from all over the world. I've travelled a good deal and can safely say that the idea of U.S. domination over the rest of the world is ridiculous. If the U.S. disappeared tomorrow, there would be a blip for the rest of the world and then life would go on as it has before. There is little that the U.S. does that is needed anymore.

It's time for Americans to wake up to this fact. It's not a BAD thing, it's bound to happen as the world evolves. We become a part of the global culture rather than try to enforce our way of life on everyone else. We've been doing that for a LONG time now and it needs to stop. The first thing we need to do is finish the Third World War.

Yes. You heard me correct. We have been embroiled in WW III since the McCarthy era and the so called "Cold War". We haven't had any peacetime since then. What we have had is a lot of head in the sand blindness to the fact that we have been systematically trying to make the world conform to us. World War III is the longest war we've ever been involved in actually approaching fifty years now. If you don't believe me, go watch the movie "The Atomic Cafe" and you will see what was conisdered the end of World War II but really marked the early rumblings of World War III. All the "peacetime" crap was a big PR spin to make Americans feel less guilty about the fact that they too participated in atrocities against humanity. Do not speak of peace until you truly achieve it! Mark my words, some day, historians will look back on the period between the 1950s and the early 21st century as a dark period in human history when fascism was given a friendly face through American television and consumerism.

Currently the U.S. has not progressed socially much beyond where it was in the 50s. We're still a nation of country bumpkins. The old war footage in "The Atomic Cafe" really undescores that point. We had rednecks dropping nukes in the far east with no understanding of what they were actually doing. The monkeys were given fire and set the forest ablaze! Seeing the attitudes of 1950s post-WW II America really sickened me. Now, more than ever, I have a strong desire to clear out of this godforsaken nation. You may not like what I say, or how I think, but there is that nagging little bit of suspicion in the back of your mind that I am right. You are living a lie. You have a choice to find the truth (which is hard to stomach) or to keep your head buried in the sand like generations before you. Here is the honest to god truth about the world:

There is no hero. There is no one who can save you. No matter what your best efforts are, if the system of lies that surrounds you falls down, you may perish. You should live your life with these thoughts in mind and go forward bravely knowing that these are certainties. THAT is true courage in living. Not all the macho bravado about being a patriot or dropping bombs on your enemies. If someone is attacking you, THEN you fight. "Pre-emptive strikes" are the sign of cowardice. The Taliban attacked us. So we are justified in finding them and erradicating them. But Iraq did not attack us. There is no justification. However, war is profitable and keeping the Third World War going is of the highest importance for the greedy cowards that want to rule the world.

go for it!

[tuxette]

Now, more than ever, I have a strong desire to clear out of this godforsaken nation.

With the way things are going over there now, you could probably get political asylum somewhere or other in Europe.

Taliban

[js7a]

The Taliban didn't attack us, but al Qaeda, who they were harboring, did. There was an effort by the Taliban to offer Osama bin Laden to a third party for trial in late September and early October, 2001. But the U.S. ignored the effort and Rumsfeld started directly equating the Taliban with al Qaeda.

Re:Taliban

[List of FAILURES]

I will need to research this deeper, but if you are correct in your assertion, then I thank you for the information. After watching "The Atomic Cafe" I wouldn't doubt that what you say is true. Of course, I've always doubted the veracity of information from the Whitehouse.

More like it

[freejung]

That's the spirit, LoF! That's more like it!

This journal entry is quite good, and contains lots of reasonable arguments.

Now, if you can just work in the angle of how becoming better global citizens is good for Americans (which is fairly obvious), and stop calling the country names, (though I've felt the same way, and in fact tried to leave, but I got sucked back in), we'll be getting somewhere.

Maybe I should post a journal entry about the Aikido strategy of politics. It might be generally useful. I ad