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<blockquote data-quote="Judge Bean" data-source="post: 13439" data-attributes="member: 42"><p><strong>Titor's Culture</strong></p><p></p><p>It's an easy shot to come back to the past and criticize people for how they are trying to live. Let's look at who we really are, rather than what an alleged timetraveler might have been taught about us (thereafter reinforced by his selective experience among us, supposedly).</p><p></p><p>We are not to clumped together into some amalgam of all the worst human traits. First of all, Americans are greedier than most in the world, but they are also more generous than most. We don't have the dirtiest air and water here, nor the most dangerous food. We are loud and vulgar, according to some of the French and English who have not run into any Australians or Germans. Some of us are apparently bent on making money no matter the cost to the environment or the Constitution, or to the social fabric; but many more of us complain constantly about the abuse.</p><p></p><p>You certainly cannot blame us for the worst problems now facing the world. The other nations are just as consistently stubborn in their refusal to institute international controls on fuel consumption and emissions, and the US could not do it alone anyway. We invented the atom bomb, but used it to end a war we did not start and tried to stay out of; without refugees from the tyrants, we couldn't have invented it. We've been the first and only ones to use nuclear weapons-- twice, 60 years ago. If they are used again very soon, it won't be us. You can blame us, since we have more of the weapons than all other nations combined (well, tens of thousands more), but the fact remains that we have refrained from using them, and, even in Titor's scenario, it is others who launch the holocaust.</p><p></p><p>If Titor is actually blaming <em>all </em>of the current generation in the world, and not just Americans, he has immersed himself so deeply in a thick muck of generalization that you'd have to rescue him by restating his meaning for him before refuting him. I for one won't bother. He is one of us as much as any one of us is; he was born here, and he couldn't tear himself away. I think what he says is actually self-loathing.</p><p></p><p>Human beings work hard on insufficient information and almost nonexistent supernatural guidance. We try to pay our debts and protect the children. We try to obey ridiculous laws, face up to our taxes, figure out the vehicle code so we don't get a ticket for looking odd to an officer. At least the women seem to conduct themselves with honor, telling the truth more than lying, and trying to lessen the pain in the world. I wouldn't trade any of you for life in any other time period, period. Titor teaches me nothing about my culture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Judge Bean, post: 13439, member: 42"] [b]Titor's Culture[/b] It's an easy shot to come back to the past and criticize people for how they are trying to live. Let's look at who we really are, rather than what an alleged timetraveler might have been taught about us (thereafter reinforced by his selective experience among us, supposedly). We are not to clumped together into some amalgam of all the worst human traits. First of all, Americans are greedier than most in the world, but they are also more generous than most. We don't have the dirtiest air and water here, nor the most dangerous food. We are loud and vulgar, according to some of the French and English who have not run into any Australians or Germans. Some of us are apparently bent on making money no matter the cost to the environment or the Constitution, or to the social fabric; but many more of us complain constantly about the abuse. You certainly cannot blame us for the worst problems now facing the world. The other nations are just as consistently stubborn in their refusal to institute international controls on fuel consumption and emissions, and the US could not do it alone anyway. We invented the atom bomb, but used it to end a war we did not start and tried to stay out of; without refugees from the tyrants, we couldn't have invented it. We've been the first and only ones to use nuclear weapons-- twice, 60 years ago. If they are used again very soon, it won't be us. You can blame us, since we have more of the weapons than all other nations combined (well, tens of thousands more), but the fact remains that we have refrained from using them, and, even in Titor's scenario, it is others who launch the holocaust. If Titor is actually blaming [i]all [/i]of the current generation in the world, and not just Americans, he has immersed himself so deeply in a thick muck of generalization that you'd have to rescue him by restating his meaning for him before refuting him. I for one won't bother. He is one of us as much as any one of us is; he was born here, and he couldn't tear himself away. I think what he says is actually self-loathing. Human beings work hard on insufficient information and almost nonexistent supernatural guidance. We try to pay our debts and protect the children. We try to obey ridiculous laws, face up to our taxes, figure out the vehicle code so we don't get a ticket for looking odd to an officer. At least the women seem to conduct themselves with honor, telling the truth more than lying, and trying to lessen the pain in the world. I wouldn't trade any of you for life in any other time period, period. Titor teaches me nothing about my culture. [/QUOTE]
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