I read articles on Medium routinely by people with whom I disagree. A healthy habit most of us neglect. People with opposing views should be heard. Mind broadening ideas should be considered… then accepted or rejected. One such writer I have read recently is Umair Haque. Here is a guy who passionately believes not only is the glass not half full, but forever empty with deadly shards scattered across the barefoot souls of hapless, hopeless Americans.
America and Britain are Textbook Examples of a New, Gruesome Phenomeon: Rich Nations Self-Destructing Into Poor Failed States
He believes America and Britain are in a death spiral. And that the average Anglo-American is selfish, arrogant, cruel, brutal, stupid… and hopeless. Breathtaking how anyone can be so devoid of hope for the future. Instructive that some of our young new politicians also believe.
Here was my brief response:
“Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources.” — Abba Eban 1967
No, Winston Churchill never said, “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.” But it sounds like something he would have said. So many uncareful people have taken Abba Eban’s quote and misapplied it to Churchill.
Regardless, there is much truth here that you seem consistently blind to in your posts.
As a college freshman in 1976, I took a “we are all doomed” class from a professor whose world view was very similar to your view of the US and England. He urgently proclaimed impending disaster. He had recently ditched “global cooling and the impending ice age” with his belief that by the year 2000, the world population would be about to crash amid overpopulation, inability to produce enough food, and the exhaustion of fossil fuels.
In your posts, you take real issues and concerns and blow them up to absurd levels. (Life is pretty good here in the American heartland, tho not problem free). And ignore any evidence of implementable solutions. You appear to make the same mistakes as my old professor.
You are right. Well, 10%, 20% or 30% right. Enough to have a huge following of believers. The problems you trumpet are not silly. But your take on them is.