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November 19, 2006
Out of the 20th century ashes, and a restoration of glory
by Andrew A. Anissi
Dated: November 19, 2006
I often lament that this decade, thus, far, has been nothing but a repeat of the 1980's, in terms of culture, politics, and the lack of intellectualism, but I'm quickly realizing that on a longer term basis, America appears to be repeating the 20th century entirely. We're angrily debating between evolution and creationism, as if the two were mutually exclusive. We're letting international bankers push us around which will inevitably lead to another world war. We're once again trying to re-learn that scientific method cannot operate by calculation alone, and requires reason and intuition for achievements and discoveries to be made, though for the time our academics and researchers seem to be stuck on statistics as the replacement of thought. We're too busy trying to understand how to force competing sub-cultures to co-exist rather than building a national culture by which to inspire. And worst of all, we're all to focused on trying to take money out of the system artificially by playing the market, rather than trying to create something new and add to our community. Rather than becoming a proud nation, we're becoming narcissistic, meaning we have arrogance without self-respect. We started out the 20th century as a great civilization, and we ended it in utter decadence. If we have to repeat all of our 20th century struggles, let's do it right this time and restore our people's glory.
Posted by andrewanissi at November 19, 2006 12:52 PM