Americans live in a bubble of blissful ignorance

American Exceptionalism has more in common with religion than traditional nationalism. It is a grand fantasy based on historical myths and delusions used to brainwash generations of citizens. Since the Plymouth Colony was established in 1620, our history has been one of genocide, slavery, torture, assassinations, invasions, violence, racism, sexism, and environmental degradation. The real history of the U.S. has been scrubbed from our textbooks as adeptly as any fascist government real or imagined.

We Americans live in a bubble of blissful ignorance that shields us from seeing our true selves in the mirror. We are quick to point out the flaws of other countries while we secretly overthrow an elected government or fly illegal drugs into the country to pay for violence and mayhem in other parts of the globe. Not content to be an example of democracy to the rest of the world, we have a long history of trying to impose our form of government on others through the barrel of a gun.

Instead of acknowledging our mistakes and trying to learn from them, we treat each one as an aberration that is unrepresentative of our true holy nature. Problem is, recent history clearly demonstrates that we’re lying to ourselves. Our dark nature continues to drive our actions with the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, the horrific torture of prisoners and unrestrained spying on U.S. citizens. Instead of scratching out an existence at the edges of society, the anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti-democratic forces in this country are being voted into office by a deaf, dumb and blind citizenry.

The future looks dim for this country. No one in the CIA will be prosecuted for spying on members of Congress. No one who approved of torture will be prosecuted. The rich keep getting wealthier at our expense. We continue to try and solve world issues with bombs and bullets. True change will only come about if we stop worshiping the false America and start being honest with ourselves about our faults.

Ignorance, nationalism and greed have broken America

Sometimes it’s hard to take reality seriously. We live in the computer age where just about anything you might want to know is only a few keystrokes away.  We’ve harnessed human knowledge and wisdom in a small machine and you can tap into it any time you want. Despite this, despite having all of the information we need to make informed decisions, we still have people governing us who live in the Dark Ages when science was black magic and it was believed God controlled people like pieces on a chess board.

Instead of honoring and elevating intelligence, our current crop of leaders shun it, deny it and run from it to hide in the warm buxom of their corporate masters. How can any country last when its leaders celebrate superstition and rule under the illusion that their magic is more powerful than science? They think God has blessed them and their ambition, when in reality these true believers are merely useful idiots for the elites who are willing to buy them a seat in Congress as long as they toe the company line.

Their faith doesn’t inform their lives. It’s just the opposite. They’ve cobbled together a set of beliefs that justify lying, cheating and stealing under the guise of doing God’s work.  They don’t answer to God or the American people. They answer to the Fortune 500 CEOs and greed-blinded billionaires who have become so twisted and perverted by money they are willing to leave their children a poisoned, dying planet. The only thing our leaders are highly skillful at is spewing platitudes and code words that draw ignorant, angry white voters to the polls like flies to dog crap every two years.

We will fall as a country under the weight of our willful ignorance, blinding nationalism and tolerance of greed. History tells us over and over again that any country that extols superstition over science, that allows its wealthiest citizens to control the government, that believes perpetual war is the optimal state, cannot survive. Our empire is already crumbling and, without real change, collapse is immanent.