Tuesday, February 26, 2008
False Dignity, Posing Self-sacrifice, And Mock Humility Among Developed Nations' Pampered Class
New Zealand, Canada, and Germany (for example) are richer, stronger, more advanced, and more influential than Zimbabwe or Italy (or several other countries). Does it then naturally follow that citizens of these advanced countries and/or their governments should voluntarily step down a few notches; to willfully become poorer, weaker, less advanced, less influential, and – supposedly – more noble examples of a "good society?" If not, why then is it regularly suggested that the U.S. would be somehow redeemed if it followed this absurd scenario?
Currently, America happens to be the richest, most powerful, most advanced, and most influential country in the world. Does this earned good fortune really call for self-loathing and voluntary decline? (The leftist notion that America's multi-trillion dollar wealth was somehow "stolen" is blatantly absurd – poor countries never had an industrial/high-tech wealth producing economy or the freedom and rule of law that permits the creation of wealth and human potential to flourish. America's wealth has been produced by the minds and actions of its own citizens).
America stands temporarily perched in history's prime position, due partly to the stupid decisions of the much-praised European counties that previously held that position (perennially dabbling in failed utopian philosophy experiments that tested the more extreme points of the political spectrum and led them down periods of self-destruction and decline as America ascended).
The whining caste of resentful intellectuals and spoiled intellectual wannabes who despise America's current position in the world would demonstrate greater honesty if they were to temper their transparent hearts of envy and vengeance. The current alignment in world affairs is the closest they will likely ever come to seeing the "multi-lateral" world they claim to desire (a dominant China, Russia, or Europe will be considerably less "multi-lateral" than a free-wheeling dynamic America). Sympathy for a fascist regime in Iraq and hatred of middle class expansion, kick-started by American market economics, is hardly cause for rabid diatribes and cliché Marxist fits, yet that is the standard polemic of today's trendy anti-U.S. Rhetoric. Driven by left "leaning" mass-media, entertainment, and "education," the average spoiled-caste member is incapable of making any lucid judgment beyond their college diet of Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, or the monthly caricatures of America found in Le Monde, Spiegel, or Newsweek.
The citizens of advanced countries in the world seem to be doing just fine, but their relative positions of strength seems to cause them no remorse in the face of other less successful societies – certainly not enough to deliberately promote their own decline in influence or achievement.
When a New Zealander or Canadian et al. calls for the willful and voluntary decline of their own relative privileged positions in the world I'll be more impressed with their sincerity when they rant against America's successes. Until then...shut up.
