We might say that the NEW Ugly American is
overstressed, insecure and perplexed by the conflicting information and images
of global citizenship. This
partially explains why many deliberately choose to be self-comatose,
practicing the above symptoms.
The job for us as humane globalists is to present controversy and
painful truths in a way that people can come to understand, rather than reject
outright.
KWC
Darryl,
I believe
there is a percentage of people in the U.S. that are so angry at so many
things in their own country that were wrong or they have no power over and
cannot change that they need an scapegoat and any opposition to that
scapegoating will not be brooked and may turn the angry mob against the
well-intentioned information giver.
arthur
I think this
rings true. Is this what Freud called sublimation?
Karen,
your instincts are correct.
A brief
excerpt from my recent (past) job. I was talking with a customer about the
somewhat "checkered" past of the Bush family and did not realize that someone
else was listening in. Well! When the one had left, the "uninvited listener"
was all over me. (Paraphrased): "What right had I to smear
his president. He was doing what he should to keep the
world free of terrorists and we (up here in Canada) should be grateful the he
was because we (up here in Canada) were too *** stupid
and scared to get involved."
He did
not want websites for information. He did not want to check the Library of
Congress for historical documentation.
This
person could not accept the idea of "free speech" or "dissension" or any
P.O.V. that was in opposition to the current political will (or is that wall)
of the U.S. war machine. He even went as far as complaining to the owner of
the business about my attitude re: speaking about politics while at work. And
the owner told me to apologise. So, I apologized
for him listening to a private conversation and left the
room.
I
believe there is a percentage of people in the U.S. that are so angry at so
many things in their own country that were wrong or they have no power over
and cannot change that they need an scapegoat and any opposition to that
scapegoating will not be brooked and may turn the angry mob against the
well-intentioned information giver.
How to
make Bush the scapegoat is the billion dollar question.
Darryl
P.S.
Please fire your "article" over.
