Christoph Reuss wrote:
>
> Harry Pollard asked:
> > You say: "Currently the largest problems of Switzerland are due to
> > Americanization."
> >
> > What are the problems?
>
> The largest problems are
> - the decay of our (once world-class) public services due to privatization
> - the decay of our cultural diversity due to Americanization of culture
Tis much a shame we export Coca-cola instead of our
watches. 125 years ago America made the best watches in the
world, and the Swiss recognized this.
> - the decay of our direct democracy due to Americanization of the media
I believe that 200 years ago there was more democracy in America.
Today Americans can still be on their local school boards and
zoning commissions, so all is not lost.
> (merger-mania, corporate dependencies)
> - the decay of our youth due to Americanization of food, movies, families,...
> - the decay of our environment due to Americanization of consumerism (e.g.
> SUVs instead of energy-efficient cars)
Are Europeans really "falling for" these automabominations?
I think anyone who buys a big SUV should be tried for treason,
and first of all the POTUS who encourages them to thus be disloyal
to their country -- he should be hanged, or else remanded to
St. Elizabeth's (a mental hosiptal in Washington, DC).
>
> (Note the difference between progress and Americanization in all cases.)
Very good distinction to draw!
Not all motion, even in the direction of the horizon, for a man
standing erect and facing forward, is progress. And the further
one goes down a wrong path (Heidegger's Holzwege???), the longer
it will take to get back to where one can start moving forward
in a more auspicious way -- provided one still has time
left in one's life....
America has given progress a bad name, and one result of
such "progress" has been the back-lash of "postmodernism".
>
> > Also, you say: "Perhaps America would be criticized less if it could get
> > rid of its obsession of forcing its own system (and the resulting problems)
> > upon everyone else (with rather egoistic motives)."
> >
> > Could you explain?
>
> Isn't it obvious? What part of imperialism don't you understand? ;-]
It is obvious except to those who, like George W Bush and
Johnell Bryant (the USDA official who interviewed Mohamed
Atta a year befrore "911"), "cannot imagine".
Osama bin Laden, here as in other places, understands it.
See quotes at top of this page:
http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/WarOnTerror.html
>
> Chris
I found a magnificent picture of the reverse side of
The Great Seal of The United States, yesterday. What
a shame it's not more true to life:
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/cgi-bin/vuImag3.pl?i=150
Lux mentis lux orbis
(The light of the mind is the light of the world)
Finally a really pathetic speculation: What if George W
is a stain on freemasonry (and not just Skull and Bones)????
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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