Of Pens and Swords

I can’t think of a term that would define American. Not in today’s world anyways. We, as a country, have no people. We say that the diversity is our people, and in many ways this is true, but we don’t have anything that unifies us other than zip codes.

This is something that’s been on my mind for a long time, years.

We are good at compromise as a group, since we haven’t had any civil wars over elections in quite a while. We’re also horrible at compromise, since it seems to be public law that everybody has the right to be right, with this whole ‘you have no right to offend me’ movement.

We are good at making public law , but sometimes too good, by allowing frivolous lawsuits to grab national headlines instead of just combating human ignorance and stupidity.

We seem to want to have a sense of community, but then we build large houses with large yards and a 15 minute drive to the closest grocery store. We segregate ourselves in our own little shelters and wonder how we can get more involved in the community.

We are a country that is innovative with technologies, but are a people who are becoming to lazy to be innovative in our own lives.

We’re a people full of opinions about everything, but most never travel outside their town, much less to another country. We demand that our opinions be heard and tolerated, but never vote, only complain when the results of voting didn’t go the way we wished it would.

We wonder why the world doesn’t like us, and try to befriend everybody, and push our morals, yet we don’t know our neighbors. For some reason the country should be known to all, but ourselves we’re isolationists.

We define what perfection is, and print it in pictures of every printed material in the checkout lane, but procrastinate about ever trying to meet this goal. Instead of trying to even try to make ourselves better, we just don’t do anything and complain that our pants don’t fit because the ass in them keeps shrinking.

We criticize other countries with other religions as being fundamentalist, then we belittle their religions with the same breath.

We want real change to happen, but then we’ll vote (the 18% that does vote anyways) for someone that will not change anything of any real merit, but only a few things that will make headlines. We want all the change in the world as long as we don’t have to do any of the work, and it doesn’t happen in our town.

We are a people that wants to retire with all the riches that can be had, and protect our future with every fiber of our being, but then we teach our future how to be procrastinators and hypocrites, and that blaming others for their lack of caring/respect/education/*.*, is the way of the world.