[lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans?

[Carl Remick]

>T Fast wrote:
>
>>Not to be too pressing but why should this bother you any more or any less 
>>when the critic is American or or not?
>
>Because when American do it, they're assuming they're smarter than their 
>neighbors. It implies they're apart from or above the society that produced 
>them, and immune to its alleged faults.
>
>Doug

Spoken like a true American, Doug :)  Your answer explains why the US is 
such a cripplingly conformist society.  Criticize others and you’re putting 
on airs, saying you're different, you're better.  The national motto:  "Who 
the hell do you think you are, buddy?"

This country doesn’t just tolerate mediocrity; it insists on it.  Mediocrity 
is, of course, the iron law of capitalism – the drive to turn not just every 
item but every individual into a commodity, to ensure that no worker (except 
the uniquely talented "visionaries" at the top of the heap) is 
irreplaceable.  But I think the US pursues the lowest common denominator 
with a zest unequaled in any other capitalist society.

Carl