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Question I ask myself periodically & I believe I might even have asked it here a couple of times, much to the disgust of some. Should we not at least feel a little shamed by this consumer terrorist attitude of ours that has us ranking as one of the most wasteful nations on earth...? If we at least felt some shame might we not make more concerted efforts to change that pathological attitude...? Or does the shame interfere with our 24/7 goodtimes baby ensuring that we take every precaution not to feel it...?

I think that's the root of the problem here in the US. The kind of thinking that is considered completely normal, even desirable here in the US would be considered nothing short of psychotic in more civilized cultures. Although Americans do a lot of chest-thumping about being "Christians", the fact of the matter is that the gods that the vast majority of Americans worship are themselves and their stuff.

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Posted: Aug 20, 2008 - 11:44am

exotraxx wrote:

The Limits of American Power

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"Our foreign policy is something that is concocted in Washington, D.C., but it reflects the perceptions of our political elite about what we the people want," he told Moyers. "And what we want, by and large is... this continuing flow of very cheap consumer goods. We want to be able to pump gas into our cars regardless of how big they may happen to be... And we want to be able to do these things without having to think about whether or not the books are balanced at the end of the month, or the end of the fiscal year."
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MrsHobieJoe wrote: whenever I see this thread in the raft I just think of the Star Wars films. OK, think I'd better go and be silly somewhere else, don't mind me That's better than what I thought: "What are we going to do tonight, Brain?" "Same thing we do every night, Pinky: PLAN TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!"

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