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December 20, 2015

Seeing the World Through Third World Eyes

When you compare your average American’s night out with the 50% of the planet who live on less than $2.50 a day, you realize we are gods.

America is a country built on mind-boggling inventions, remarkably diligent entrepreneurs, and unfathomable mountains of hard work. We take all this greatness and indulge in opulence that makes the Roman Empire look like a trailer park. What is everyone complaining about? Right now we’re celebrating a tradition that involves getting drunk with people who love you, eating until your stomach hurts, and opening tons of presents. What the hell is in heaven, cheaper beer? - Taki's Magazine

Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 20, 2015 5:08 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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America is built on....
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cooperation.
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And tradition.
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Voluntary cooperation and tradition. Mostly people who continue on continuing on because the annoyances they receive are erased by the benefits they receive. Which is part of tradition "we always do things this way" which is based on successful systems.
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This system extends to third party people (non-family/clan/tribe) which makes America (and places like Canada and Australia and New Zealand) so successful.*
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Distrust, pushed by the tribalists in academia and politics, breaks this system down.
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Thus the third world, cargo-cult-like, apes the results, but does not embrace the foundation. And our own elites want to cut off that foundation because if they do not -

Hey!

Someone may remove them as an elite.**


*Three hundred years ago these places were the ass-end of nowhere, complete BFE. And now look at them.

**An elite stays as an elite so long as it has the energy to do so. The latest group? I give them thirty years or so.

Posted by: Mikey [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 20, 2015 5:14 PM

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