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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts
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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (34182)8/22/2021 1:56:20 PM
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The hypocrisy that you point out does not diminish the value or the utility of the founding principles. Humanity evolves in a widening spiral. Democracy and equal rights were originally meant to be the domain of the very elite. Now they have spilled over to a much greater portion of the society.

Pain is good. Those feel less pain (e.g. because they took Tylenol) end up lacking empathy. Those who are very brave tend to become cruel. And those who do not feel pain at all, self destruct like the people with leprosy. People who are dead set on pain avoidance at any cost end up in ruins. These are facts established by extensive research.

Nations are like that too. The US has been powerful enough to feel little pain and little empathy. Since the end of Vietnam war the US policy has had pain avoidance as one its pillars. This does not make Americans worse than others. I think that the Chinese, Indians, or the Japanese would have been much worse than the Americans had they inherited the world after WWII. We already know how the British and the rest of the Europeans behaved when they were powerful.

If America is to flourish, it must feel enough pain to self reflect and have empathy for the rest of the world.
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