The invasion of I. must, due to the way it was conceived and executed, be understood by us as a totally foolish act. We must begin to question the kinds of persons we have had in power. Bush and Rumsfeld are two names to mention here.

We must ask ourselves whether Americans are really such intelligent people at all.

We need to instigate a project to arrive at clear thinking again, because we seem to have lost it.

Obama talks about freedom or the great qualities of the United States of America or whatever but I think he is missing the underlying malaise that is going on right here all around us. What I've got to say is that every day we get more and more distant from one another; it gets harder to talk to one's neighbors. The little bit of social intercourse the emerging market economy gave us for the last one or two hundred years is wearing thin, wearing out. We are herded more and more, like silent, driven animals, into our places. If on the other hand you like the niche you ended up in, then good for you but a society needs interaction and by the time you wake up and feel the loss it will be too late.
No revolution: it will stay the same as it ever was. It may get worse. But if it gets worse it will collapse altogether. So, I say, we cannot let it just get worse. The processes in place are so heavy, so massive -- and yet we do not even understand either how to change things or even what the things we have in the society today are in the first place.

US/America: born of refugees who escaped suffering and conflict in Europe, they were all thrown together here, and created a friendly, neighborly society.
But now the violence of Europe that the Americans escaped has been reproduced here, so the escape was only temporary.

How 'bout these miracles of the free market? Yeah; How 'bout it? How about the material the ideologically star-struck conservatives talk about? There is none; no competition. There is no one entering any markets -- OK, on the lowest level, like a taco stand in Mexico.
But we are talking about the movers and the shakers and it is a big players enacting sham competition. If a CEO loses in that game he gets replaced and gets a check for millions. This has happened many times, I believe. That isn't competition. It is humorous, but it isn't competition. He isn't risking anything. He is playing a game. Every five years the phenomenon called competition will drop in quality by another degree. And anyways no one wants to compete -- or even interact with -- the disgusting phonies who manage/own the capitalist world nowadays. Just jump into the tank with those barracudas, would jya? You will like it. Competition.

If you are a genuine, honest person that's great. But how much influence will you have in society. If you do not even talk to your neighbors...In this American vacuum?