tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post1911173576132234375..comments2023-10-25T08:52:58.428+01:00Comments on Only In America: A Hidden World Of Astonishing Violence: America's Brutal Prisons Re-UpHimselfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666097098083216833noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-43703346131744919862014-08-14T11:38:27.067+01:002014-08-14T11:38:27.067+01:00Good morning Thomas.
One hundred years hence, I do...Good morning Thomas.<br />One hundred years hence, I don't we will have the luxury to look back and philosophise about the injustices of man. I think by then we will be well into the next great, and final, mass extinction.<br /><br />I voiced my own opinion here.<br /><br />http://onlyinamericablogging.blogspot.com/2013/11/our-planet-our-future.html<br /><br />Between that and its associated links, it lays out my own philosophy regarding our future.<br /><br />Or, as Paul Watson says, As a species we are insane. And this before the perils and legacy of Fukushima entered the equation.<br /><br />http://onlyinamericablogging.blogspot.com/2013/11/as-species-we-are-insane.html<br /><br />But back to the question at hand, I think exists a fundamental flaw on the psyche of Americans. It's not genetic, the population's gene pool being too diverse for that. But rather one of conditioning, and much centred about the myth of American exceptionalism.<br /><br />Try American exceptionalism in the search bar, it brings many results, not least a recent scathing article from John Pilger.<br /><br />Keep on reading:) Himselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11666097098083216833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-9728869096176699982014-08-13T14:31:29.535+01:002014-08-13T14:31:29.535+01:00Very interesting. The older I get the more I see w...Very interesting. The older I get the more I see what a totally horrible world we live in. I can really now see life from the viewpoint of someone 100 years hence, who will casually look on our society and easily conclude how awful it is, rather than with the eyes of somebody of the present, who believes injustice belongs to the past.Thomas Baden-Riesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGBZoD-3Rq0noreply@blogger.com