Yeah. I used to be a person who said that “America is great because it is good” and I know that attitude came from a post 9-11 patriotism I thought was real.
But this isn’t even trying. We are broken as a society and country.
A pretty good rule in general is: “the more somebody claims great things about themselves or about something they control, the less that is true”.
A country’s politicians harping about how great and good the country they have power over is, should ring enormous alarm bells in one’s mind - such qualities are self-evident, so if the people who control the country feel the need to insistently claim that, it means they know that the country falls short of that and words are needed to fill in the perception gap between reality and people thinking the country has such qualities.
That said, it’s the kind of thing one only discovers (if at all) with life experience, and I thing most of us started by believing such things, later figured out it’s bullshit and even later figured out what kind of symptons to look for to determine if it’s all bullshit, so fair enough that you believed it and kudos for, by now, being at least at the stage of having figured out it was all bullshit.
They say the greatness of a civilization can be judged by how it treats its weakest members.
No one is on the fence about the US or China or Russia.
Israel
Yeah. I used to be a person who said that “America is great because it is good” and I know that attitude came from a post 9-11 patriotism I thought was real.
But this isn’t even trying. We are broken as a society and country.
RIP 🇺🇸
A pretty good rule in general is: “the more somebody claims great things about themselves or about something they control, the less that is true”.
A country’s politicians harping about how great and good the country they have power over is, should ring enormous alarm bells in one’s mind - such qualities are self-evident, so if the people who control the country feel the need to insistently claim that, it means they know that the country falls short of that and words are needed to fill in the perception gap between reality and people thinking the country has such qualities.
That said, it’s the kind of thing one only discovers (if at all) with life experience, and I thing most of us started by believing such things, later figured out it’s bullshit and even later figured out what kind of symptons to look for to determine if it’s all bullshit, so fair enough that you believed it and kudos for, by now, being at least at the stage of having figured out it was all bullshit.