Ideas roughly lumped as 'socialism' and 'communism' have never been tried - though elements of socialism are welcomed (if we rename them suitably) - most Muricans [??] love welfare, but just not for the undeserving. (That of course cannot be the case re any 'me'.) You do appreciate that those are advanced ideas - [like say: sharing?] - for some advanced, evolved culture we might imagine someday to develop - don't you?

(Let's not even start on what happened in the USSR. None of the above, at any time.)

Absent an actual world government with teeth - we all behave according to our species' alt. designation, Man: the lying animal.

*THIS* is not the time for examining our assumptions and behavior since 1776; it is War Time. See? Those analyses we reserve for Peace Time. That is when we examine our behavior for lucidity, inconsistency and other errors - and labor to correct those aberrations - as we strive to improve conditions for all humans, not just for our Office-tribe or Sibling-tribe. Clear?









Except, being human, I lied:
There is No Time when we do that last. We just tell our children that story - as we understand that they are innocent enough to see how ugly it could get: if we didn't actually question our assumptions periodically. What else Could we tell them? Eventually they get it and stop asking those questions, the little bastards.

{sigh}

HTH.

(You didn't expect an actual explanation for the hypocritical crap we export <--> that comes back to bite us on collective asses.. now did you? Euphemism is our crutch; Sanctimony our stick for whacking, and the Ostrich is the Real National Bird. Our God is [$] except during some Holiday gift exchanging days. Is it much different over there?)



Ashton
Lying homo-sap