Lily's Blog 2

To get the respect of most Americans, you'd have to appeal the lowest common denominator, which is very low indeed.

Take American television as the prime and most obvious example...

Democracy, unfortunately, doesn't always rhyme with either intelligence or discernment.

I don't see the elevation of liberal white guilt to a religion (manifested by the uncritical admiration/adoration of all aspects of African-American culture and the notion of blacks as the Chosen people*), the rise of mega-churches, or the harnessing of high-speed technology to consumer capitalism as solutions.

Victorian England, le siecle des lumieres of France (leading into the French Revolution), Renaissance Florence, and Tang dynasty China all thought they had created the perfect society.

I'm not so sure Facebook, I-pads, nail salons, Starbucks, or the new breed of Hollywood action films will survive among the great humanistic inventions of the 21st century.

America's supremacy is based on the ostensible superiority of its technology, military, consumerism, and populist democracy with consensus based on misinformation and fear.

We'll just lead the world in destroying the planet more quickly than the other civilizations of the past were able to accomplish.

At least the others left things of beauty.


* as in the replacement of the traditional domination by WASPS by that of African-Americans culturally (sports, music, movies, history) and politically.  At least the WASPS were 70% of the population, not 13%.