So it looks like I may have struck a nerve with my prior post.

[ymetca]

64. Reminds me of that old adage

that no matter what happens here today, there are about a billion Chinese who really don't give a shit.

American politics is very insular and there is so much hubris about our preeminence in the world.

I really think our current predicament goes back to that eye-opening moment of 9/11, and the subsequent debacle of attempting to maintain the mass delusion that we're still the good guys who won WWII and saved the world from despotism. We didn't, actually, but let's continue pretending we did, since it has worked so well so far.

Turns out, a lot of folks on this planet now think that WE are the main oppressors. But most of us just haven't gotten to the point of asking ourselves why that is, and how we can change that perception. Because those numbers are growing out there, folks.

I always thought that it would have been better, and cheaper, if we had just dropped plane loads of cash, instead of bombs, all over the place. That is what we are, after all. A currency provider.