To: MAGA - Making Assholes Great Again: From CANADIAN GAPS Movement aka Go And Pound Sand America. Maybe Trump Needs to Ask For a Refund From Israel to back to 1947?
Everybody is better off if the USA simply respects the national borders of other countries and protect its own. The attitude "yours is mine" is imperialistic, yet in a different light, very much the communists style.
I Have to agree, Trump might be a Communist in the closet. The United States is a very backwards country for the average Western bloc person. Using non Western Bloc countries as a measuring stick is not even a real argument.
The United States is a country based on pure capitalism, meaning good, if you are in support of a pure form of survival of the fittest., like South Korea and China. I don't prescribe to that.
Why is America so backwards? In any country if "true" freedom is used as a measuring stick , that means how the most "vulnerable" are treated in that particulate country, territory under that countries control and influence. That control could be women in "Afghanistan" or "Trans" people in the U.S. and how they are treated, or how those who can not afford health and dental care or cancer treatment are treated.
In America people have sell their house to pay for cancer treatment, that would never happen in Canada or in any Western European country or even in Australia or New Zealand. The United States might be really good and fair compared to the other 193 countries in the United Nations, BUT NOT to the Western Bloc countries of the world. In my younger years I travelled throughout parts of the United States and like the people weather they were Black, White, Brown, Pink, Yellow or even Orange like president Trump of any religion. I did not like the Neo-Nazis and biker gangs me and pops came across. I really like to sit in the back Black Gospel churches to listen to the folks singing and preaching even though NOT my religion; I remeber those folks as very friendly to this white kid.
Israel is akin to a 1950s United States and it seems that from a domestic aspect the United
States is marching backwards to this.
From a Foreign Policy the Untied States have stepped sideways from there so-called norm. That norm was always been flawed. This helps explain this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RNE3X41IvM
The sophistication you mentioned indeed has been observed widely, including me. My observations had been more focused on arts, philosophy, and history, but not so much on these human-centric views. Now you mentioned it, I think you are quite right. Confucius had long argued that human welfare should be the center of everything. In the Renaissance era, that was also a pillar of the revitalization during that period. It was an era of liberation: to liberate individuals from the Church (not the faith or religion), the princes (political freedom), and the guild (economic freedom). Those were all good. But alas! Maybe that were also similar to the Confucius school of thought: highly revered by many but truly followed by very few. The original liberalism for liberty's sake has been transformed into a new form of authoritarian social control. So much so that an ordinary American who tries to live in Europe for a living will feel very constrained. Yes, there is a fine line between recklessness and freedom, and it is not always easy to differentiate. I think the American society, albeit in decay, still has some ability to revitalize itself. In comparison, the old root of Renaissance, the good old Europe, seems to be so far away now. As an outsider who has never been to Europe or Canada, I don't see clear signs of revitalization. I wonder what you think about my observations.
I think many individuals become habituated by where and how they live.
I live in Canada so I watch BBC world news, Al Jazeera, Fox, ABC, NBC and some foreign language ones. Its almost to much to watch so I PVR them to watch later. YouTube has bee good to. Like this one https://substack.com/home/post/p-143809343?source=queue.
Everybody is better off if the USA simply respects the national borders of other countries and protect its own. The attitude "yours is mine" is imperialistic, yet in a different light, very much the communists style.
I Have to agree, Trump might be a Communist in the closet. The United States is a very backwards country for the average Western bloc person. Using non Western Bloc countries as a measuring stick is not even a real argument.
The United States is a country based on pure capitalism, meaning good, if you are in support of a pure form of survival of the fittest., like South Korea and China. I don't prescribe to that.
Why is America so backwards? In any country if "true" freedom is used as a measuring stick , that means how the most "vulnerable" are treated in that particulate country, territory under that countries control and influence. That control could be women in "Afghanistan" or "Trans" people in the U.S. and how they are treated, or how those who can not afford health and dental care or cancer treatment are treated.
In America people have sell their house to pay for cancer treatment, that would never happen in Canada or in any Western European country or even in Australia or New Zealand. The United States might be really good and fair compared to the other 193 countries in the United Nations, BUT NOT to the Western Bloc countries of the world. In my younger years I travelled throughout parts of the United States and like the people weather they were Black, White, Brown, Pink, Yellow or even Orange like president Trump of any religion. I did not like the Neo-Nazis and biker gangs me and pops came across. I really like to sit in the back Black Gospel churches to listen to the folks singing and preaching even though NOT my religion; I remeber those folks as very friendly to this white kid.
https://joecreed.substack.com/p/if-am-not-acting-like-a-real-president.
https://joecreed.substack.com/p/this-is-all-mine
What Your Is Mine fits the United States and the Old Soviet Union the Monroe doctrines explains this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine it like the One China Policy.
Israel is akin to a 1950s United States and it seems that from a domestic aspect the United
States is marching backwards to this.
From a Foreign Policy the Untied States have stepped sideways from there so-called norm. That norm was always been flawed. This helps explain this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RNE3X41IvM
The sophistication you mentioned indeed has been observed widely, including me. My observations had been more focused on arts, philosophy, and history, but not so much on these human-centric views. Now you mentioned it, I think you are quite right. Confucius had long argued that human welfare should be the center of everything. In the Renaissance era, that was also a pillar of the revitalization during that period. It was an era of liberation: to liberate individuals from the Church (not the faith or religion), the princes (political freedom), and the guild (economic freedom). Those were all good. But alas! Maybe that were also similar to the Confucius school of thought: highly revered by many but truly followed by very few. The original liberalism for liberty's sake has been transformed into a new form of authoritarian social control. So much so that an ordinary American who tries to live in Europe for a living will feel very constrained. Yes, there is a fine line between recklessness and freedom, and it is not always easy to differentiate. I think the American society, albeit in decay, still has some ability to revitalize itself. In comparison, the old root of Renaissance, the good old Europe, seems to be so far away now. As an outsider who has never been to Europe or Canada, I don't see clear signs of revitalization. I wonder what you think about my observations.
Typo corrected I said valuable but meant vulnerable
I think many individuals become habituated by where and how they live.
I live in Canada so I watch BBC world news, Al Jazeera, Fox, ABC, NBC and some foreign language ones. Its almost to much to watch so I PVR them to watch later. YouTube has bee good to. Like this one https://substack.com/home/post/p-143809343?source=queue.
I like art stuff a lot I use to go to the old Vancouver Art Galley quite a bit, not so much anymore after my pal died. https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/current-exhibitions https://www.straight.com/arts/heres-whats-coming-to-vancouver-art-gallery-this-summer# I like the old masters mostly like this one https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/leonardo-da-vinci-the-mechanics-of-man/