an honest look at “America philosophy” based not on words,
but on action…
America claims to be the foremost follower of freedom and yet
the actions deny this claim…for how can one be a true follower
of freedom when large segments of the population want to ban
abortions, ban gay marriage, ban pot use and ban these things based
on “moral” values…values that are part and parcel of the
“pride and prejudice” of American’s…“pride and prejudice” meaning
we hold these values from the pride and prejudice of American’s…
the pride comes from exporting “freedom” to obscure places like Iraq
and Afghanistan and prejudice from attempting to ban American’s from the most
fundamental right of voting… by creating barriers to voting of minorities and the poor
with such things as closing polling places where minorities and the poor live and
and cleansing the polling list which disproportionately removes minorities and
poor voters…
the “pride” of proclaiming America as the greatest country on earth but
that is merely prejudice for what criteria would one use to determine such
a thing? any such creation would/could be use to easily disprove any such
notion of America being the greatest country on earth…
by any objective standard, America is not even in the top ten of the greatest
countries on earth… but the astonishing thing is, we could be if, if we actually
practice what we preached in terms of our ideals…
if we tried to use as much energy to export freedom and liberties to other countries,
as to our own country… if we spent as much effort on reducing poverty in America
as we do in Africa and Asia…if we practice freedom with as much vigor as we
preach freedom… if we practiced our idea of safety across the board instead
of selectively practice safety when it suits us… one man tried to blow up a plane
with a shoe bomb and now every single person in America has to take their shoes off
at the airport… one person poisoned people via opening a vitamin bottle
and now every single medicine in America is protected by a seal opening…
we have extreme safety measures based on the actions of one person
and yet school shooting after school shooting broken up by workplace
shootings and the occasional concert shooting and yet, we still allow
such things as automatic weapons… in the name of freedom…
but we then turn about and decry that exact freedom for transgender
people and homosexuals and those who want to use the restroom for
the sex they feel the most at home with…
we don’t have a unified philosophy… we have “pride and prejudice”
masquerading as a coherent public philosophy…our “pride and prejudice”
allows such thing as our massive income inequality and our daily
contradictions in the use of freedom for American’s…among other things…
and once again, we must begin by first understanding our double
standards and phony concern over safety for American’s…
double standards like claiming to be pro-life and then denying
life the means necessary to survive… by denying food stamps and
WIC programs to those who need it and denying benefits and the
income for the older population who need it by attempting to
reduce such things as medicare and Medicaid and Social security…
act like this are damaging attacks to those who need these supports
just to survive… “pride and prejudice” in pride in claiming to be “pro-life”
but actively attacking those who need it the most, that is prejudice…
our actions are not “pro-life” but pro-money and pro-materialism…
we value our money and our taxes and our private property before
we value the lives of those less fortunate… and that is “pride” of
wealth and the “prejudice” of wealth which is believing that wealth
is the highest value to be achieved… and we offer up rich man solutions
to a poor person problem by offering up such useless benefits as in
taking away money and vouchers and replace them with boxes of food…
a rich man solution… replace badly needed money with boxes of food…
and too often we think in this manner… using white man solutions
to a minority problem or a rich man solution to a poor person problem
or a man’s solution to a women’s problem…we take “pride” in our
solutions when they are in fact, just acts of “prejudice” for solutions…
based on our “pride” of being rich or being a man or in being white
and thinking that because we are white or rich or a man, we have solutions
for those who aren’t… us… we act with “pride and prejudice”
in offering solutions to those who aren’t us…
so our actions betray our lack of coherent philosophy in terms of
who we are and what should be our actions instead of acting
from “prejudice and pride”…
Kropotkin