Alan: America is a utilitarian culture, ruled by utilitarian philosophy and utilitarian people like Donald Trump.
Indeed, most "successful" Americans think progress and success are rooted in useful activity.
"Success"
"Success"
Although useful activity is important -- and in many cases decisively important -- most of what "goes wrong in the world" is a function of hyperactive meddling.
Again, I refer you to Donald Trump.
Again, I refer you to Donald Trump.
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Hyperproductivity (based on All-American hyperactivity) undergirds humankind's "consumption" of the planet, characterized by the destruction of ecosystems and biosphere.
"Less" is, in fact, "more."
And "more" is indeed deadly - now more than ever.
Think what America would be if Uncle Sam had never engaged in Vietnam, or Iraq, or 1950s Iran, or Nicaragua, or Guatemala, or Chile, or Cuba.
Hyperactivity and hyperproductivity -- coupled with the bogus presumption that "failure is not an option" -- comprise the essence of the catastrophe America has visited on the world.
All in the name of "doing more."
All in the name of "doing good."
All in the name of utilitarian hyperproductivity.
All in the name of utilitarian hyperproductivity.
"The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the wellbeing of contemporary civilization. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves."
G. K. Chesterton Toronto, 1930
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What America needs -- what the world needs -- are good ideas communicated through carefully crafted words.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
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