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"Harold Covington" <NSNet88@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:<gcoo7.1673$lx5.98378@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>...
> NEW YORK THIRD-POSITIONIST E-MAIL BULLETIN 9/12/01
> 
> MODERN AMERICA: DISNEYLAND FOR DUMMIES
> 
>    By Kenneth J. Schmidt
> 
>     I have spent the last two days getting a good laugh out of the
> ridiculous
> rhetoric coming from the Media about America's emotional response to the
> attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It's not that I look
> upon
> the very real human suffering of people with contempt; I don't. I have
> nothing but sympathy for the victims of the disaster and their families.
> 
>       What I am having trouble with is some of the patently corny and
> insincere bromides uttered by the press and various public officials about
> the disaster.
> I will make a little list:
> 
>                          "America has lost its innocence"
> 
>                          "Will we ever again feel safe?"
> 
>                          "Our life has changed forever"
> 
>                          "America will never be the same"
> 
>                          "What we will tell our children?"
> 
>      What the above statements have in common is an extreme naivete about
> the
> nature of man and how we live life on this planet. I think it has something
> to do with the queer doctrine known as "American Exceptionalism." American
> Exceptionalism" posits that the USA is exempt from the laws of history, that
> the general laws of government and civilization do not operate here.
> Believers in AE believe that God has set aside America as a "shining city on
> a hill," as Ronnie Reagan used to say, to inspire the world to emulate us.
> Of
> course, its pure crap.
> 
>    Well, yesterday three nails were hammered into the coffin of American
> Exceptionalism. We are a nation like any other. We inject ourselves into
> long
> standing disputes in the Middle-east on one side and we expect people to be
> happy about it. We bomb all sorts of countries for spurious reasons and
> expect those "smelly foreigners" to just sit and take it without thirsting
> for revenge. Welcome to the real world!
> 
>    American's walk around in a fog of ignorance. They get most of their
> political and philosophical ideas from Hollywood and TV. They believe the
> normal condition of life is something akin to a TV sitcom. Disasters only
> happen to obscure people overseas. Dr. Ed Fields once referred to this fog
> of
> ignorance and naivete by stating that America has become a "Disneyland for
> dummies" and I can think of no other phrase that encapsulates our situation
> better than that one.


Well stated.

Phil