Therein lies the danger.
I feel your pain, but you are overboard.
Exactly how does one tell when one is overboard? Just wait...(like Greg suggests). Perhaps, but I am deeply, deeply troubled by our largely successful export of our corporato-culture. Wait? How long? Obviously not as long as the German people waited, no? How does one measure when it is appropriate to protest without being disregarded as "one who always says 'Nay'"? And if we all do "just wait", can we face ourselves?
IMO, this is a disgraceful downhill slide we're on. My fear is that when it becomes obvious that we're on the wrong track, it'll be too late to do anything about it.
bcnu,
Mikem
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"
