by SeaGypsy » Sat 16 Jan 2016, 05:22:56
Its not how Americans see it. These days America produces an absolute cacophony of every kind of noise, visual & auditory, amongst which comes forth representations of the full spectrum of human behaviour, from truly heroic through to skulduggery of high order. Americans started- intentional community living, the tiny house movement, Greenpeace, legal ganga, free love, flower power, the modern ethnogenics & ethnobotanical communities, the internet, the modern production line & still are the world's greatest industrial manufacturer, with the pinnacle of technical ability in most fields.
We outside the US see the US much more as it really is than in the past. We wonder why you guys get so into killing each other & messing with killing others so often. We marvel at the level of craziness. But we also mostly want America to succeed, to be it's best possible self, & many of us believe that is possible, suggesting Cog's point has validity, the founding fathers got some extremely important & timeless truths right.