the unconscious of the JC is responding
Wasn’t it Hank Reardon and Dagny Taggart who shrugged?
In some ways, the unconscious of the JC is responding to the original question of this thread. Very interesting (said with a Viennese accent ala S. Freud).
Well what does it mean then that I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about?
(Correct psychodynamic response is probably “Well, what do you think it means?”)
Cathy
The side story (thread jack) involves characters from Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged and “who’s John Galt” is not a quote from the same book. I think "John Galt knows
" is the quote.
Im lost…are u saying we didn’t have the freedom to say we are not going to war?
If we didn’t go to those wars we wouldn’t be free! Our country wouldn’t be if we didn’t fight in them wars!
Thats why i hate it when people say we shoudn’t have went to Iraq. The freAken iraqis attacked our country! Are yous nutz? We have to go to war! We cant just say oh no they rammed plaines into our buildings…ahhh…lets just act as though nothing happend…derrrr…
that would be stupid if we didn’t go to war! We have to! War is a sad, but real part of life, not everything can be worked out. Most Iraqis dont care about the U.S., and are actually taught at a very young age to hate us!
Are you SERIOUSLY that ignorant? NOT ONE of the hijackers was from Iraq!! I don’t even know what else to say to you.
I had an Iraqi friend at college in Chicago in the early 1980’s; a really nice guy. At that same school, I had two different Iranian roommates at two different times. One was a REALLY nice guy, super smart and super neat, educated, articulate, polite. Straight A’s, and had no luck AFAIK finding a job at a US company. The other was a bitter, angry, useless slob.
It’s easy to generalize, but very difficult to do so accurately.
It’s distressing, but not surprising, to see that Bush’s campaign to confuse the issues with respect to 9-11 and Iraq has worked so well on some people. 9-11 was a justification for response, but he deliberately mislead (enough of) us to execute a murderous attack on a country that had little to do with it. Unfortunately, “freAken iraqis” is not an accurate enough term for a full-scale invasion by the most powerful country on earth, with the most sophisticated weaponry and intelligence gathering the world has ever known.
Neither the 1st nor the 2nd in command is capable of handling a loaded weapon.
By who?
Madeleine Albright?
No silly, by Mr. Bush.
I don’t think that’s true… you’re 2nd or 3rd I think. I know for a fact that Luxembourg is WAY ahead of you, looking at GDP per capita. The US definitely has the largest economy, but that doesn’t make it the richest country by any means.
Whadya know. Luxembourg is way ahead and Norway slightly so. I hope they’re as fat as we are too.
Correction: The BEST unicyclists!!! USA! USA!
You managed to find the only positive thing on my list 
The best unicyclists ARE in North America, but not the USA.
I LIVE in America, and sadly, therea re a lot of people who are actually like this…
The american government, as of now, is a war propaganda machine, and sadly, people like this are the result.
The so called “American Dream” has corrupted society by having people become obsessed with making as much money in as little time as possible, and destroying values along with it.
The government has mortgaged my generation’s future to China
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I have a very horrible opinion of the current American society, and at times, I’m ashamed to live here
Very interesting. I can honestly say that no matter how bad things have been or perhaps might become, I have never been ashamed to live in the good ol’ U.S. of A. Call me ignorant but I am living the American dream. We are down the ladder somewhat from the list of billionaires, quite a ways down, matter of fact about one rung off the bottom, but I couldn’t ask for more. I have a very loving family, the means and ability to work for a living, the freedom to go to church and to travel on vacation, a roof over my head, food on the table every night, socks in the drawer and an apple tree in the back yard. Maybe it’s nice being ignorant because the society in which I exist is pretty rosy, all for which I will be eternally thankful.
Bruce
mmmmm, apples
Have you ever read The Great Gatsby?
Normally I’m happy that I live in the USA, because, normally, it’s great.
We do have many good rights that aren’t granted in many parts of the world, but many times I’m ashamed to be associated with the teenage American stereotype (the lazy, wasteful, overweight, ungrateful, selfish, sit-around-and-play-video-games-all-day teen)
Thanks. It’s always good to know there’s a rational explanation for things that seem otherwise inexplicable.
Cathy
Every generation seems to look at the younger generation as a pitiful excuse for all that’s good and right. I have two teenage boys so I am very interested in what they experience on a daily basis. So I monitor a thing called Myspace and peruse the Myspace sites of many of the teenagers in Rochelle. I’m astounded and horrified by what I see. It’s as if the scourge of the earth are alive and well on Planet Rochelle. Then Ben and Brad’s reports of what they see and hear in the school hallways are frightening. So what do we do?
You mention that you are ashamed to be associated with such a crowd. Well, don’t associate with the stereotype. So far, Ben and Brad have kept their defensive walls up, maintained their distance, and picked and chosen their friends very carefully. They use our home as a refuge from it all. I know, easier said than done. But change always needs to start with the first step.
I guess honestly I would have to admit that we’re not out to change the typical teenage stereotype but rather find ourselves in a defensive mode more often than not. There’s just no way we can take on the world by ourselves. So we protect ourselves and realize that we can’t change the world. But we are able to initialize changes in the immediate enviroment in which we exist, which can only benefit the community as a whole.
When I said associated, I didn’t mean 'am friends with" i just meant being steroetyped as one of them. I have excellent friends, none of which fall under the typical stereotype, in my opinion.
And as ashamed as I am to admit it, I have no idea what scourage means…I assume it means the lowest or something to that effect, but I do agree with you. I am actually worried as to what wil happen to the world once my generation comes into power