Americano?

You know the song "Handlebars" by Flobots?
duh. You are most likely some teenage weirdo who knows this kid, Gabe and if you do, you know the song. That's the way of the multiverse.

This song is a commentary on American arrogance. It gets more and more obvious. Pretty much, American can do anything. We therefore command respect from everyone.

There is a general philosophy in America to go around the system to get what you want, or even just because you can. For example, riding a bike with no handlebars. You can still ride a bike without having to use the handlebars. Likewise, you can have the Afghanis fight your war against the Soviet Union for you. We want to have a war with the USSR, but they invaded Afghanistan, not us (because we wouldn't give them aid before, by the way). We get all excited to go to war with the USSR, but if WE do it ourselves a nuclear war might erupt...that'd be smart. MAD ensures that any sane person would never nuke another country. Anyway, we just have Afghanistan go to our war. It devastated their nation and as soon as they were done keeping the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan, we ran away. Now Afghanistan is pissed at us for not helping them...so their premier terrorist group gives us the biggest terrorist attack in history. That's pretty much when we fell off the bike because we weren't holding on to the handlebars.

That's pretty much how America does everything. "Handlebars" shows how stupid this philosophy is. We can do anything we want. We break international laws all the time, but who's checking America? The UN? right. We use our power to our advantage. Who in their right mind would argue with the US? If you screw us, we'll just stop trading with you. Way to go, stopping trade with the biggest international consumer in the world. America doesn't care about the little guys in the world. We only care when it affects us. How many of us knew anything about the Middle East before 9/11? How many of us knew anything about the Middle East before Kuwait? How many of us knew anything about the Middle East before the 70s trade embargo? How many of us still know nothing about the Middle East?

The only reason why we care is because they bombed us, they give us oil, and one of the pillars of their religion is to take over the world. Small exaggeration, maybe, but it's true.

Who cared about China before we realized that our trade deficit with them is 5% of our GDP?
Who cared about China before they turned to communism? Nobody. Now they're one of the leading powers in the world. They could defeat us. Hands down. If for any reason we ever went to war with China, we would have to resort to nuclear war in order to win...and then everybody loses. How could you survive without products made in China?

So what do you know about China? The capitol city? What about Tibet? I think they should get the independence that they desire.

anyway.

Learn about the world! You're in it. American society is failing.

I love America, by the way. I truly believe that this country was created with instruction from the Lord. But we don't have to make the entire world like America instead of accepting other cultures as existent.




End of rant.