America is much like Christianity. If it actually lived the ideals it professes to believe in (and to make war to propagate) then it would truly be a shining jewel on the ocean. But we don't. We hypocritically claim the moral high ground in the interests of self-aggrandizement and self-promotion, and then damn others for failing to be properly selfless. I'm not sure if I'd be happier with a country that came out and said Look, I'm the biggest and so we have to do it my way because I said so but I'd feel a lot less betrayed.
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Date: 2002-12-04 04:27 am (UTC)If it actually lived the ideals it professes to believe in (and to make war to propagate) then it would truly be a shining jewel on the ocean.
But we don't. We hypocritically claim the moral high ground in the interests of self-aggrandizement and self-promotion, and then damn others for failing to be properly selfless.
I'm not sure if I'd be happier with a country that came out and said Look, I'm the biggest and so we have to do it my way because I said so but I'd feel a lot less betrayed.