Wow, I've been neglecting this

I relaize I've been away for awhile, not writing, wallowing in my sadness or whatever the emotion of the day is. I haven't done any work on anything really, and more of that is to come. It's the end of the semester, and I'm fucking swamped with work. It sucks, but I will deal as I always have.

There was an article on Yahoo News recently, which I found through FARK (of course) that had reported the results of a survey. The survey covered a bunch of other countries in the world, and what they thought of America. It can be found here. I'm not surprised by the results at all, but I still have a few things to say about it.

The article says that our (America's) reputation is declining in 19 out of 44 countries surveyed. It's not just the Muslim--populated countries, even Canada thinks we're getting worse and worse. I tend to agree on some level. We are bastards who do things our way, and if you don't like it, tough shit. In a "global" world, that just doesn't fly. I know Saddam needs to be taken out, and the world agrees to some effect, but to do it ourselves, against everyone's wishes? That's just being stupid. It may seem easy, Iraq's not exactly the most formidable opponent. But we thought that last time too, and look what happened. Hell, we thought that about Vietnam. Last time I checked we got our asses handed to us there.

I know it's good to be patrotic, and to love your country and all that... but a blind following of it is retarded. Hitler got in power that way...

I don't want to write too much on that situation with Iraq though, I think enough has been said and discussed already. There were a few points I'd like to talk about though. The first one is that those surveyed still like our entertainment, despite our supposed bad values. I'm starting to think that the rest of the world isn't as intelligent and classy as they'd like to think. Our entertainment sucks. Cookie cutter movies and bands? What the hell is wrong with you? Though I suppose they don't have nearly the wealth of options as we do here, so I guess I'll give them that.

Another thing that the survey said was that some countries that they don't think WE do enough to help the world's problems. Make up your minds! Either you want us there or you don't! I guess we're damned if we do, damned if we don't. Personally, I'm all for isolationism. I think we should stay the fuck out of the world's problems for a while and see what happens. Maybe they'll come begging to us for aid, maybe they won't. Either way, we win. How can you hate us if we aren't involved?

My last point I want to touch on is that the world thinks it's safer with only one superpower. Even Russia said this, and they we're the world's last superpower to fall. I don't know if I agree. With only one, they pretty much control what goes on. I don't like that one bit. It's like having a dictator control the world... and I wouldn't be surprised if there were people out there who think of the US as such. I know the complications of having more than one superpower. They'll constantly be competing and whatnot, like in the Cold War. I think we're past that now. I think if we had more than one, sort of like all the countries in the UN Security Council, the world would be a better place. I suppose that's the whole point of the UN, but right now it doesn't seem to matter because we're going against them anyways. But whatever...

I'm not a US hater, or a liberal hippie either. But I see that there are things wrong that need to be fixed before we turn everyone against us. I don't care how strong or arrogant this country is, we just can't have that. I don't know much about politics, so maybe I shouldn't be talking about this, but I the article just inspired me to say something.


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