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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread.
QCOM 176.67+1.6%Nov 12 3:59 PM EST
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3081)7/11/2001 4:09:21 AM
From: tekboy  Read Replies (3) of 12231
 
Here is a very frightening quote from that article: "This vein of disquiet was richly tapped by John McCain when he said on the campaign trail last year that he wanted Americans to serve a cause 'greater than themselves.' This is a worthy impulse." This is the USSR, Nazi, North Korean, Mao and religious sect mantra. It is asking people to climb on somebody's altar and allow themselves to be sacrficed for the good of what John McCain, Hitler or somebody else wants. I say people should serve their own interests while recognizing the property rights of other people. They should leave other people alone to run their own lives.

um, now who's guilty of less than careful reading? the line you quote was raised specifically to rebut it, as the sentences immediately following show:

"This vein of disquiet was richly tapped by John McCain when he said on the campaign trail last year that he wanted Americans to serve a cause “greater than themselves." This is a worthy impulse. But what is distinctive about America is that it is not a country in search of great national causes. It has constructed a political order in which people can pursue their own private conceptions of goodness—whether they be coaching Little League, starting a company or volunteering—and these private acts are honored. Indeed they are what America is all about."

You and the author agree more than you think. As for this, "some Americans know that the USA is not perfect and is not even considered the best place to live by many of them [who have left]," surely you know that the flow of immigration is weighted heavily in the opposite direction...

tekboy@evenifthey'reallsheople.com
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