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<blockquote data-quote="Judge Bean" data-source="post: 9086" data-attributes="member: 42"><p><strong>The Perfect Nation</strong></p><p></p><p>I appreciate your willingness to see from my angle, Grayson, and I hope you see that I was responding to the use of the term "fool" more than anything else. I apologize for my overreaction to it. It made me want to send my second over to set terms to recover my honor. </p><p></p><p>Another thing occurred to me, though, and that's the Anglo-American trait of having the real mess take place on foreign soil. This is the underlying bitterness behind the accusation of "imperialism," that is, that it's best to have the killing and shooting elsewhere, preferably in a poorer region. Not that both British and American countries have not seen their share of bloodshed on home ground, but, well, not quite their share.</p><p></p><p>Because of the "old country" ties and the sense in both countries of relative geographical safety, and their wealth and stable societies, the people tend to think of the real risky politics as occurring elsewhere: certainly nothing like a civil war, we presume, is a likelihood in New York or London.</p><p></p><p>We have become smug and complacent. This system is not so solidly grounded as it seems. It reminds me of Virginia City, Nevada, which was spread out on the side of a mountain in the 1860s, all undercut by a network of mines and tunnels. While not very much of the town ever actually fell through, it still gives you a sinking feeling to stand in it. It must have been a much worse feeling with 10,000 people standing on it; when I lived there, it was a "ghost town" of fewer than 500 residents.</p><p></p><p>It is an illusion, don't you think, that the real problems with the social order are all the problems of Asia, Africa, and Latin America? That's where we go to do the shooting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Judge Bean, post: 9086, member: 42"] [b]The Perfect Nation[/b] I appreciate your willingness to see from my angle, Grayson, and I hope you see that I was responding to the use of the term "fool" more than anything else. I apologize for my overreaction to it. It made me want to send my second over to set terms to recover my honor. Another thing occurred to me, though, and that's the Anglo-American trait of having the real mess take place on foreign soil. This is the underlying bitterness behind the accusation of "imperialism," that is, that it's best to have the killing and shooting elsewhere, preferably in a poorer region. Not that both British and American countries have not seen their share of bloodshed on home ground, but, well, not quite their share. Because of the "old country" ties and the sense in both countries of relative geographical safety, and their wealth and stable societies, the people tend to think of the real risky politics as occurring elsewhere: certainly nothing like a civil war, we presume, is a likelihood in New York or London. We have become smug and complacent. This system is not so solidly grounded as it seems. It reminds me of Virginia City, Nevada, which was spread out on the side of a mountain in the 1860s, all undercut by a network of mines and tunnels. While not very much of the town ever actually fell through, it still gives you a sinking feeling to stand in it. It must have been a much worse feeling with 10,000 people standing on it; when I lived there, it was a "ghost town" of fewer than 500 residents. It is an illusion, don't you think, that the real problems with the social order are all the problems of Asia, Africa, and Latin America? That's where we go to do the shooting. [/QUOTE]
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