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Not quite. The American way being the people: the peope are a confused, rioting mass. They know not what they do, and they mill about, no different from cows. What those in power (i.e. celebrities har dee freaking har) tell them, they latch on to and lap up every last drop of it.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong: that's people. That's not a person. A person is his own individual mind. Every PERSON scoffs at what the celebrity has to comment on the war, and how to avoid it. The people, however, look up to them as if they were Christ speaking.
Perhaps a line from Men in Black would clear this up: "A person is smart. People are dumb."
The American way is the vague belief in everything that is told them. I believe I've offered this advice before, and I'll offer it again: read the following: 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, and Amusing Ourselves to Death. They might open your mind as they have helped me to think differently.
America wouldn't go to a war for the heck of it. But the people would. They would take onto whatever news they are given and would distort it to support and sanctify themselves in any manner.
Vassago commented on something that occurred in his class, and I've heard it as well in my own, and elsewhere, around and about, from people's mouths and people's hands. That's the American way: to react in the completely most negative manner possible to anything foreign or alien to them, and to spread that fear like bugs spread a warning message to the colony. To mistrust whatever comes near them. To spite the new kid, and shun anything that tries to be reasonable with them.
We need to fight to gain tolerance, and only tolerance, nothing more. A few decades later some slight trust will enter into our daily conversations, and a hundred years later, relationships will blossom.
And if America is indeed defeated, then the people rally together and point fingers and call names.
Such is the American way.
And America's not the only one...but it's the biggest one.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong: that's people. That's not a person. A person is his own individual mind. Every PERSON scoffs at what the celebrity has to comment on the war, and how to avoid it. The people, however, look up to them as if they were Christ speaking.
Perhaps a line from Men in Black would clear this up: "A person is smart. People are dumb."
The American way is the vague belief in everything that is told them. I believe I've offered this advice before, and I'll offer it again: read the following: 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, and Amusing Ourselves to Death. They might open your mind as they have helped me to think differently.
America wouldn't go to a war for the heck of it. But the people would. They would take onto whatever news they are given and would distort it to support and sanctify themselves in any manner.
Vassago commented on something that occurred in his class, and I've heard it as well in my own, and elsewhere, around and about, from people's mouths and people's hands. That's the American way: to react in the completely most negative manner possible to anything foreign or alien to them, and to spread that fear like bugs spread a warning message to the colony. To mistrust whatever comes near them. To spite the new kid, and shun anything that tries to be reasonable with them.
We need to fight to gain tolerance, and only tolerance, nothing more. A few decades later some slight trust will enter into our daily conversations, and a hundred years later, relationships will blossom.
And if America is indeed defeated, then the people rally together and point fingers and call names.
Such is the American way.
And America's not the only one...but it's the biggest one.