Americans believe strange things and think strange thoughts
by Clyde N. http://wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1125
Millions of Americans, perhaps a majority, think proudly, that invading and overthrowing two weak, remote foreign states that have done us no harm means that we are “defending our country”;
that the main http://wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2596 and training Asian scientists);
that the primary goal of human life is shopping;
that what “we” feel to be right is binding on everyone (though “we” has never been satisfactorily identified);
that some pretty, morally and intellectually mediocre politician or other is a great statesman whose elevation to power will make the world better;
that it is the duty of a “good citizen” to participate in the dead ritual of voting;
unlike every civilised and even half-civilised people in history, that manners are an affectation unnecessary to society;
that a doctor’s degree or an ordination makes a wise and benevolent person;that capitalism and free enterprise mean government http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1325;
that science can and should prolong their individual existence indefinitely—even if it means cannibalizing babies;
that spending other people’s money and blood on causes we favour makes us virtuous.
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