Opening scene of the new HBO series The Newsroom explaining why America is not the greatest country in the world.
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Close, but not close enough. At no point in history was America 'The Greatest'. Sure, some great things have come out of America, but the same could be said for any country. In a project extending back to the late 19th Century, America being 'The Greatest' is part of the mythologized history that is drilled into Americans generation after generation (think 'Manifest Destiny') in order to make them acquiesce to global military dominance on behalf of the international banking elite that controls them.
JFK realised what was going on and tried to lift the veil from Americans' eyes, but he was taken out. In that moment Americans had a choice. They chose instead to believe the lies and embraced the illusion that they are living the 'American Dream'. So their country has remained firmly in the death grip of a bunch of concentrated psychopaths who cloak themselves in the flag.
You know why they call it the American Dream? Because, as George Carlin put it, you have to be asleep to believe in it.
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I'm pretty sure my numbers are correct
A while back I read that the US' total military " white budget" is about $1.5 trillion while at present there are some 310,000,000 people in the US, making the per capita defense spending about $US4,830.00 per capita.
In Canada, the Harper gov't is talking about $0.5 trillion in defense spending, and with some 34,000,000 people in the country that puts Canada's expenditure at approximately $14,700.00 per capita.
That means of course that the Canadian per capita spending is almost exactly 3 times that of the US'.
Interesting . . . yes ? ?
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As a final note here, you wrote,
"If this is so, then Questioning must be the road to salvation."
to which I'll comment that questioning is only the first part of the questioning-seeing-acting-questioning . . . algorithm; which, objectively acted thru, loops over and over to generate better and better approximations to "Truths," and do note the plural there.
I'll leave it you to conclude what part in "salvation" ever-consolidating knowledge of Genuine Truths might play . . .
A while back I read that the US' total military " white budget" is about $1.5 trillion while at present there are some 310,000,000 people in the US, making the per capita defense spending about $US4,830.00 per capita.
In Canada, the Harper gov't is talking about $0.5 trillion in defense spending, and with some 34,000,000 people in the country that puts Canada's expenditure at approximately $14,700.00 per capita.
That means of course that the Canadian per capita spending is almost exactly 3 times that of the US'.
Interesting . . . yes ? ?
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As a final note here, you wrote,
"If this is so, then Questioning must be the road to salvation."
to which I'll comment that questioning is only the first part of the questioning-seeing-acting-questioning . . . algorithm; which, objectively acted thru, loops over and over to generate better and better approximations to "Truths," and do note the plural there.
I'll leave it you to conclude what part in "salvation" ever-consolidating knowledge of Genuine Truths might play . . .
One further note
I wrote,
" . . .questioning is only the first part of the questioning-seeing-acting-questioning . . . algorithm . . . "
and re-reading I think it's useful to note that this is a re-iterative process, where output is fed back to input. Several possiblites exist here:
I wrote,
" . . .questioning is only the first part of the questioning-seeing-acting-questioning . . . algorithm . . . "
and re-reading I think it's useful to note that this is a re-iterative process, where output is fed back to input. Several possiblites exist here:
One further note, con't
Several possibilities exist here:
1 - the formation of a negative feedback loop that results in a "stable" or regulated process
2 - the formation of a positive feedback loop that can result in a runaway condition
3 - the formation of a non-linear system tending towards self-similar iterations, highly dependent upon initial conditions, which conditions change with every iteration
Considering '3' it can easily be seen that the reiterating "equation" must be constantly adjusted, or "tuned into" the highest level of information available.
In other words,Seekers of Truths walk a fine line through the process of developing discernment, which process is of course, unending . . .
Spiritual balance beams anyone . . . ? ?
Several possibilities exist here:
1 - the formation of a negative feedback loop that results in a "stable" or regulated process
2 - the formation of a positive feedback loop that can result in a runaway condition
3 - the formation of a non-linear system tending towards self-similar iterations, highly dependent upon initial conditions, which conditions change with every iteration
Considering '3' it can easily be seen that the reiterating "equation" must be constantly adjusted, or "tuned into" the highest level of information available.
In other words,Seekers of Truths walk a fine line through the process of developing discernment, which process is of course, unending . . .
Spiritual balance beams anyone . . . ? ?
"We lead the world in only 3 catagories"
1. Number of incacerated citizens per capita.
2. Number of adults who believe in angels.
3. And defence spending.
I'm not sure this is something to be proud of. Perhaps they could add the number of people who believe in an illusion that they are citizens of the .... 'greatest country in the world'.... Oh Rome, here we come again?
What makes a great country? Great individuals, not large human herds idealising the conformist behaviour of what a cow or a sheep would do. There's plenty of these types of people in any population. You'd expect that. We (where ever we are, and which ever country we are in), don't need any more of their influence.
Conformity? Is it the road to ruin?
If this is so, then Questioning must be the road to salvation.