Topic: Kurt Vonnegut describes what is wrong with America in one paragraph.
+Anonymous A — 13.6 years ago #18,465
"Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
Full context: http://gracerules.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/quotes-worth-repeating-why-poor-americans-hate-themselves/
Thoughts?
Full context: http://gracerules.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/quotes-worth-repeating-why-poor-americans-hate-themselves/
Thoughts?
+Syntax — 13.6 years ago, 2 minutes later[T] [B] #224,963
Well Said by him. As a kiddlet I found it easy to make lots of money, but the work to get that money was hard work.
+Anonymous C — 13.6 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #224,964
My thoughts are that I could have summed America up better, thus:
"An over-armed third-world nation which cannot do even the smallest amount to look after its own poor and needy, instead preferring to have a 17 trillion dollar a year military budget so as to send young guys and girls to die to protect what the richest 0.1 percent own. They get away with this by bombarding their dumb, bovine population with relentless, cornball propaganda about how America is the greatest country in the world, and giving them lots of brain-cell-killing food to eat".
Kurt's version was also good, however.
"An over-armed third-world nation which cannot do even the smallest amount to look after its own poor and needy, instead preferring to have a 17 trillion dollar a year military budget so as to send young guys and girls to die to protect what the richest 0.1 percent own. They get away with this by bombarding their dumb, bovine population with relentless, cornball propaganda about how America is the greatest country in the world, and giving them lots of brain-cell-killing food to eat".
Kurt's version was also good, however.
+Ned Springcream !aeNZeP7XP2 — 13.6 years ago, 28 minutes later, 33 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #224,968
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