Hope for the future
The U.S. has military bases very close to the Canadian border and to the nation's capital city, Ottawa. Americans own much of the Canadian economy. Generally, what ever they want of Canada they get.
One could almost believe our land is American land, our water is American water, our oil is American oil, our gas is American gas, our fish are American fish, our everything is American everything. We have been "invaded and conquered", and yet, we pay our own way, not at the expense of American citizens, and America is happy for this. America can only wish that that situation would be the same with the rest of the world. Could that be the true "American Dream"?
In both World Wars, Canada was engaged with the "enemy" well before the Americans.
During those years, Americans made "big money" supplying military equipment , etc.
Yet, America's entry into those wars (better late than never) saved the world from the "axis powers" and provided freedom to many. After those wars, the United States became the most wealthy and powerful nation on earth.
With all that wealth, America still has a "heap of social problems". A few years ago it was a land of discrimination, a land of pain and suffering for the poor and "down trodden", of immigrants whose families took a generation or more to become integrated within the land that promised the "American dream" and more, even "a chicken in every pot". America, the land of the "brave" that slaughtered not only Indian braves but their families, the old, the women and children. Why? For land! Having achieved so much within the continental U.S., America stretched its tentacles into Mexico, Central America, South America, the Pacific region, the Middle East and everywhere else in the name of economic progress for other nations but more so for the American entrepreneur with wealth to "invest" to increase the existing wealth of the wealthy. Oil and minerals, natural resources so much to be explored and exploited. I have seen displays of American wealth everywhere. America controls the world as it has provided an image the "possible" to many, creating aspirations for goods and services, the good life or a better life through what is called "democracy" and for, most of all, the consumption of American productivity.
History tells us that empires do not survive. The American Empire is doomed to failure and destruction. How, when and by what means are the questions that might be thought about.
I think that America will starve itself with a want of fresh water, fresh air, and nutritious food. It will collapse because medical science has advanced so fast and far that uncontrollable diseases will be resistant to the newer drugs that will be produced. The Empire may die because of the enemy within. That enemy or enemies include race, religion, education, health and wealth, politics, crime, the justice system, drugs, the entertainment industry, one could go on and on, on and on.
Are American happier now that ten or twenty years ago? They have more of everything but still there is discontent. Americans live in fear of the future and the unknown. They live with a sense of guilt for the historical crimes that they have committed against humanity. They hide and conceal so much with the use of drugs, alcohol and other addictive behaviors. American sense that their lives are changing and not in the direction of their dreams. Americans are basically disgusted with their behaviors and even conceal their personal thoughts about such. Topics that are not for the dining room table discussions. The American fabric of society is tearing, it is rotting, it is disintegrating. There is a moral and ethical collapse taking place. This is plain to see, if eye and mind are open. Evidence includes election process and outcomes, the divide that exists, the way wealth is being used. Even religion, for all the good that has come from practice is not yielding the results that one might expect. America has had linguistics and religious divisions and discrimination based on these has been rampant.
Yet, for all the problems of American society, there is hope. There has to be hope. If we look at the next generation, or two, one might wonder, but there has to be hope. Most Americans can be viewed as good people. As individuals, they are bright, helpful, fun loving, generous with so many other qualities.
Now, about Canada, as the U.S. goes, Canada goes. We are joined in an unholy marriage brought on by the environment, the physical landscape, historical international politics and so much more. We share the uncontrollable, the weather, climate, the air, industrial and social pollution, a moral responsibility for the sick and poor of all nations. We share in so many intangibles, like the way we think and act, our desires and passions and our hopes.
Without hope, where are we? This we have in common, hope for the future and perhaps the will to bring about a better world for all of humanity.
One could almost believe our land is American land, our water is American water, our oil is American oil, our gas is American gas, our fish are American fish, our everything is American everything. We have been "invaded and conquered", and yet, we pay our own way, not at the expense of American citizens, and America is happy for this. America can only wish that that situation would be the same with the rest of the world. Could that be the true "American Dream"?
In both World Wars, Canada was engaged with the "enemy" well before the Americans.
During those years, Americans made "big money" supplying military equipment , etc.
Yet, America's entry into those wars (better late than never) saved the world from the "axis powers" and provided freedom to many. After those wars, the United States became the most wealthy and powerful nation on earth.
With all that wealth, America still has a "heap of social problems". A few years ago it was a land of discrimination, a land of pain and suffering for the poor and "down trodden", of immigrants whose families took a generation or more to become integrated within the land that promised the "American dream" and more, even "a chicken in every pot". America, the land of the "brave" that slaughtered not only Indian braves but their families, the old, the women and children. Why? For land! Having achieved so much within the continental U.S., America stretched its tentacles into Mexico, Central America, South America, the Pacific region, the Middle East and everywhere else in the name of economic progress for other nations but more so for the American entrepreneur with wealth to "invest" to increase the existing wealth of the wealthy. Oil and minerals, natural resources so much to be explored and exploited. I have seen displays of American wealth everywhere. America controls the world as it has provided an image the "possible" to many, creating aspirations for goods and services, the good life or a better life through what is called "democracy" and for, most of all, the consumption of American productivity.
History tells us that empires do not survive. The American Empire is doomed to failure and destruction. How, when and by what means are the questions that might be thought about.
I think that America will starve itself with a want of fresh water, fresh air, and nutritious food. It will collapse because medical science has advanced so fast and far that uncontrollable diseases will be resistant to the newer drugs that will be produced. The Empire may die because of the enemy within. That enemy or enemies include race, religion, education, health and wealth, politics, crime, the justice system, drugs, the entertainment industry, one could go on and on, on and on.
Are American happier now that ten or twenty years ago? They have more of everything but still there is discontent. Americans live in fear of the future and the unknown. They live with a sense of guilt for the historical crimes that they have committed against humanity. They hide and conceal so much with the use of drugs, alcohol and other addictive behaviors. American sense that their lives are changing and not in the direction of their dreams. Americans are basically disgusted with their behaviors and even conceal their personal thoughts about such. Topics that are not for the dining room table discussions. The American fabric of society is tearing, it is rotting, it is disintegrating. There is a moral and ethical collapse taking place. This is plain to see, if eye and mind are open. Evidence includes election process and outcomes, the divide that exists, the way wealth is being used. Even religion, for all the good that has come from practice is not yielding the results that one might expect. America has had linguistics and religious divisions and discrimination based on these has been rampant.
Yet, for all the problems of American society, there is hope. There has to be hope. If we look at the next generation, or two, one might wonder, but there has to be hope. Most Americans can be viewed as good people. As individuals, they are bright, helpful, fun loving, generous with so many other qualities.
Now, about Canada, as the U.S. goes, Canada goes. We are joined in an unholy marriage brought on by the environment, the physical landscape, historical international politics and so much more. We share the uncontrollable, the weather, climate, the air, industrial and social pollution, a moral responsibility for the sick and poor of all nations. We share in so many intangibles, like the way we think and act, our desires and passions and our hopes.
Without hope, where are we? This we have in common, hope for the future and perhaps the will to bring about a better world for all of humanity.
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