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Anything you touch in the annals of knowledge is a foe of this system of commerce and profit, run amok. The only education that can be permitted is if it acculturates to the status quo . . . . or if it produces people to police and enforce the status quo.
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Excerpt: Fareed Zakaria’s ‘The Post-American World’ | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com
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May 4, 9:01pm
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•http://www.newsweek.com/id/135380
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No news, but spoken plainly and apparent ...
American anxiety ... (huh? anxiety would come from thinking about it, which most do not ... sorry, back to the snippet ...)
American anxiety springs from something much deeper ... (what?!? there is nothing "deep" about Americans ... mercy. Oh sorry, back to the snippet)
American anxiety springs from something much deeper, a sense that large and disruptive forces are coursing through the world. In almost every industry, in every aspect of life, it feels like the patterns of the past are being scrambled. "Whirl is king, having driven out Zeus," wrote Aristophanes 2,400 years ago. And for the first time in living memory the United States does not seem to be leading the charge. Americans see (...) that a new world is coming into being, but fear it is one being shaped in distant lands and by foreign people.
The cancer is within, (and it is NOT terrorism) those who usurp our leads are only picking up each ball we drop, nothing more. All we have to do is care ... we don't. We are afraid of shadows, full of self-righteousness, distracted by trivia, extended beyond belief into debt, and oblivious of not only the world but of our own towns, our neighbors.
We shop.
We also suffer from the "Free Rider Problem" for all the world's ills.
If it's to complicated for you to read that consider this ... you are one person, your little bit can't make a difference, right? So you do nothing (pick your topic). IF topic "X" gets solved, you still benefit ... hence, even the free-rider benefits. That is very short and sweet, but you get the point.
It is why collective action, which conservatives loath, are so hard to organize. Collective action can be very effective, but we are to lazy so we free ride ... and everyone suffers.
Some forms of collective action have had monumental effect: rights for black people, women, children, for example. But, they share obvious similarities. Now, consider gays. What obvious trait do they share? None. Thus, it is a much harder issue to fight. These are ultra-simple examples of collective action problems.
On a global scale ... forget it.
So we shop.
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