This is a real question. The way that it stands now, American movies tend to be about crimes and people talking on their phones. So, stealing money and the cell phone experience seem to be what Americans are 'on' about.
The country is in economic default and deeply involved in a years long cold civil war, so it is no surprise that creative juices have flown the coup. The US is still reeling from Covid, even though we have a vaccine. Basically, about a tenth of the population have packed the supreme court, and are now changing voting laws and health laws. In effect, the black race is somewhat enslaved again, and women are once again becoming the property of men.
The 10% are the cheaters in our culture. the folks who copy homework and test answers in school. The ones who gang up, play dirty, and cheat while playing monopoly with their own family.
Hell, democratic supreme court justices can no longer go to the court in person, because the republican justices will absolutely not mask or vaccinate. And, I guess that people who are party to a slow coup and massive civil disobedience are entertained differently. We enjoy learning new tidbits that make us hate and loose more respect for 'the other side'.
Americans care mostly about the economy. The 'economy' is just a word for people's mental slavery. We have all bought into a system where there is a 'house' that wins no matter what we do. The economy is a system where we can exchange goods easily, but it has it's own overhead. There is a class of people who act as parasites on the money itself. They wear super nice clothes, and get very nice haircuts, but they squat over the flow of money. They take what they want from the flow, and poop into it without any regrets. They have been taught that 'it is only business'.
We used to value bravery and honesty. Now, we have been shown [by electing an evil US president] that bravery and honesty are for suckers. Truth is for suckers. Altruism? Hahahahahahahahaha! suckers! Science was big for a while, but now, we are working with hate and lies. Our culture is like a depressed person that is engaged in self harm, and thinking of suicide. Why else heat up the earth on purpose, and wipe out the other species of animals?
As it happens, I do have an explanation. We are where we are in history because we failed to pilot our ship. We let it drift on the currents, and we refused to guide it. Every time that we tried to let someone steer, that single person went crazy. So, we let money steer the ship of our history. That seemed perfect for a while. We created a new type of person: The corporation. The corporation could do what a person could not accomplish. It could not die like a person, but continued when the founders passed on. And, it was thought that a corporation could not go crazy. In trying to obtain all of the money in the world, a corporation would automatically do only good deeds for human beings.
We let the corporations steer the ship of our fate. Over time, more and more parasites formed on the blood vessels that carry the flow of money throughout the body of the economy. Again, the parasites have nice haircuts, and helpful sounding names. They provide 'energy' and 'search results' and 'social connection' and cheap consumer goods.
Now, it appears that money can not be used to steer a ship properly. Just like a human being, a corporation can go crazy. It can engage in self harm. It can have fights with other corporations and even with governments. And, it looks like chasing money to steer a ship runs it right into things. The prisons and hospitals in the US are examples of systems that were arranged with the wrong notions of what success looks like. They maximize money for shareholders, but treat human beings like ball bearings to be ground up in the machine. Who the hell feels sorry for ball bearings? you just get angry with ball bearings if they go dry, and are ruined along with everything around them.
It is possible to re design the system, but humans like to do it with world wars. We have one around once per century, and they really shuffle things around. We wish to have one every time that the soldiers from the last world war die off. They remembered how crappy a world war is. That is where we are at now. The US is trying very hard to get a world war going. The best way is to interfere with another countries satellite nations. It is like messing with someone's kids. They will knock the crap out of you for messing with their personal stuff. China and Russia have not attempted to prevent us from building a stupid border wall. They have said little about our practice of torturing folks that were never convicted of a crime in semi-secret prisons. They have permitted us to chase people away from the southern border with US and Mexican soldiers. To punish families by taking their kids and locking them into small cages while driving the adults away.
We have done hundreds of things that other countries could take exception to. Deeds that no one in China or Russia or anywhere could take pride in. Deeds that look a lot like war crimes. We have attacked our reporters instead of toning down the obvious misdeeds. We have the best investigative reporters under investigation, and jail them or run them off when they reveal too much. Yet, we seem eager to become involved in China and Taiwan. We wish to take part in a war between Russia and a satellite nation. I am sure that we would not love it if Putin decided to take down part of the border wall between the US and Mexico. What if Beijing decided to place an additional border between the US and Canada? It all sounds crazy, but how do you think that US aggression looks to these older and more established nation states? China is about 5 - 10 times as old as the US as a nation, depending on how you count it. We, on the other hand, do not count the US as a country while it was held by Native Americans. I am not sure why this is. It points to a deep problem with the people that 'settled' or 'attacked' north America.
From the Native American perspective, This place was attacked and largely depopulated and destroyed. It is only the good settlers that think that it was 'saved' or 'settled'. We are a newer nation founded on war crimes, and currently struggling with racism and a corporate takeover of the government. We should absolutely not be acting on China or Russia's borders. It would be a good time to stop purchasing humans from warlords and torturing them to death. We need to break up our monopolies and fix the broken systems of medicine and election and transportation. We need to break up cities. We need to switch from fossil fuel to renewables. We do not need to go to other planets or to fly through the upper atmosphere on a tail of burning oil products. We do not need to place mines or drop fossil fuel bombs on other nations.
The money system will select war and increased inequality. There are plenty of signs that we have fallen into the trap that caught Germany twice. I have been reviewing video of ww2, and our current military gatherings look just like that. We have the snappy uniforms, and the blind nationalism. We built a bunch of new weapons, and sent them to the border of our traditional enemies. We let Germany take a bunch of countries in Europe before we took action. The US was once a fairly peaceful country.
Economic inflation is spiraling, just like it did in 1930s Germany. We have a pandemic that we were unable to deal with, race wars, new restrictive laws, and election problems. I learned more about the Cuban missile crisis, and was surprised at some of the facts. Russia had place nukes in Cuba because we had secretly placed them in Turkey. Both are great launch locations for short range nukes. The overt Cuban installation was dismantled along with the secret Turkish one.
Now, we are building 'anti ballistic missile sites' right along the Russians border. It is common knowledge that short range nukes can also be placed there with no obvious changes. Is Russia secretly placing similar missiles off of our coastline? Subs can be anywhere! What would you do if you were Putin?
Sadly, I have realized that we can actually have a pandemic, a civil war, and a world war at the same time. Right winger organizers are in the position of Nazi party members. They use 'gambits', where you purposely harm yourself in order to get what you want: Refusing the vaccination so that hospitals are filled with un-vaxed republicans on life support; Forming blockades to protest mandates by killing trade and travel; and, all kinds of gerrymandering and new voting laws intended to invalidate democratic votes.
I wonder if we can avoid starting a world war on purpose by splitting up the US at this point. The first US civil war is still simmering. It did not end in 1886. Not all the way. This time, we should not fight. We should split up somewhat amiably, as did the EU and Russia. China has too much history to split up into several Chinas, but they like economic war instead of shooting. And, they are kicking our ass that way! That is my suggestion. One group of US states can go back to lynching with ropes instead of knees. They can convert women into property, and maybe remove female suffrage. They can build walls, and conduct the doxing and the armed protests that they favor.
The world would see us as less of a threat. I believe that leaders and citizens all over the world see us as an ultra nationalistic threat. I may be the only US citizen that thinks that there is a plan for the destruction of the US that has been discussed between leaders of many nations. If they won this war, they would divide the US up, and take away our guns and ships and uniforms. that would probably create a situation similar to Germanys between the world wars. Another war would be inevitable. I doubt that the earth would be recognizable after ww3 and ww4.
anyway.... have a great day!
