Thou sayest..
But perhaps you missed the crux of my syllogism: do we actually believe the homilies which we spout - and which are so comforting to repeat, especially to elementary school children and other innocents?
For myself - I'll second in detail the analysis provided by Brandioch, above. There are none more firmly deluded than the intentionally self-deluded.
And IMhO: in the world today (and all the while I have lived in it).. there is no more sanctimonious (as is every proselytizer), arrogant (as is everyone who imposes His 'morality' du jour via force), naive (as is everyone too lazy to read history with comprehension) -- than the sterotypical 'Murican Peepul'.
Our election non-dialogue is the litmus for how the carefully crafted feedback system maintains all discussion at the sloganeering babble level. This guarantees that the 1-3% ruling class (now almost synonymous with the Corporate ruling class) - are never in any danger of losing their control over legislators, thus legislation -- thus the majority of all 'wealth'. News Clowns maintain the fine-tuning / double duty as icons and entertainers.
Our various Ministries of Propanda are patterned upon the Master's Berlin edifice - but constantly techno-tuned for effectivess as would have rendered even ice-Nazi Paul Joseph G.. temporarily orgasmic.
Still and all - Mr. Gauss measures the distribution of abilities in homo-sap as in many processes of random life: the Murican Peepul monolith exists only in fantasy - even if it is the most-used phrase of the political class. Perhaps a different '1-3%' shall ultimately succeed in reversing the outright purchase for ca$h, of the Peepul's representatives [??]
Possibly we may even.. cease filling our offspring's little heads with the Fantasy Murica? and.. dust off those magnificent ideas which spawned us.
Crap shoot.
Ashton
Pigs CAN fly.
Greed CAN become less fashionable and finally, an object of ridicule: the most powerful gravitational force in packs of homo-saps (at the mall or at home).
