America has a problem there

(in reference to this article) Let me tell you all one thing, and let me emphasize it – you people in the US have one big problem.

The US has no outer borders with real people. The only outer borders you do have – mexico and canada – are countries either a state of in economic slavery, or effectively a province. The US never had to compromize in the last century, never had to understand difficult cultures, never had to look at the bigger picture.  Large parts of the US are suffering from a sense of empirial entitlement.

That coupled with an era of supra-historical abundance (most poorest persons in the US now are richer, better educated and healthier than kings in the middle ages) has precipitated a culture of unaccountability, groundless belief in some kind of manifest destiny, a petulant tendency towards hysteria, self-aggrandizement, overcompensation and bullying anyone your leaders can find a flimsy excuse of moral superiority over.

Compare the attitudes of the US with the general demeanor of an adolescent with too much money.

Now by far the most people in the US are just as sensible as anywhere else on the planet – real hardworking and sane people – but a small minority, “by virtue of flawed genetics, just too much easy affluence, an unsanitary religious culture, unbridled and unrestrained corporate optimism and a generally conceited culture” has let loose of basic sanity.

Its very tempting to throw political lables on this fringe in US politics. They had it good, by virtue of historical accidents. Blind luck. They think they managed it all themselves, that anyone could have done it, but there is something special and blessed about them, they actually went and did it. These people, at some unconscious level realize this pyramid has been constructed of quite a few miserably exploited third world countries, a steady flow of terawats of petrochemical abundance, a rather peculiar political system and the natural riches of the US.  Let’s label this “the asshole-ification of the US”

The US had a party, the party is effectively over, and now the US must recallibrate values, affluence, division of money, power and resources, and there are people who think that is unfair, socialist, unamerican, dictatorship.

That, dear people, is an adolescent entitlement tantrum.

However these people in US society, let’s arbitrarily overlap this minority with staunch bush supporters, have taken leave of all sense.  Living in a continent and nation of compromize – europe – this is as obvious as concluding that the german diet is unhealthier than the french, and that the german economy will always be more robust than the french. Why? Because it is so bloody obvious. Some things don’t need explaining, when you look at them from a certain perspective.

All this permeates US society and has slowly been heating on the stove. Now, with a US military budget of 600 billion dollar per year, with schools collapsing, infrastructures worse off, an economy imploding, more extremes in wealth and poverty than in brazil, everyone and his pet chihuahua having access to medicine, an incapacitating health care crisis, obesity and half america shambling blindly towards ADHD and diabetes, unfunded pensions, medical insurance and welfare, and worst of all – an oil consumption that is about as unsustainable a delusion as one of the larger jurrassic herbivores being under the confiction it is a kolibri.

This can’t go on. Worse, it won’t, trust me on that. It can’t last years, no less decades. And there is worse on the horizon, in terms of automatization, labor reorganization and simplification, globalization, virtualization, tele-operation, robotization, nano-replication and then some – all of which conspiring to throw a monkey wrench with dimensions more reminiscent of a dubai hotel safe in the delicate cogs of the US political, demographic, military, economic and emotional sensibilities.

The aforementioned minority of entitlement drunk gun toting, red meat eating americans (lets call them murrcans) are itching to blame. We know that freudian displacement fantasy as an urge to dish out “dolchstosslegenden” in economy sized packages. Google the term. Whatever the case, americans are having to face the reality that a small but discrete lunatic minority has become so disattached from the real wold of real issues, it has been restricting itself to a fury diet, on you know what cable channel, and is ready to kick some ass.

My estimate – the stirrings of civil war, the first people dying, the first states vying for secession, by the time obama’s first term ends. Richly spiced with racial prejudice, conspiracies, lambasting religious memeticists with the morals of tapeworms, accidents happening faster and faster.

Did I mention the environment yet? Denialism. Thats the buzzword. People stuck in a spacewarped version of the 1950s, squared with late reaganite gung ho optimism, unaccountable by virtue of stockpiles of nuclear weapons, looking for someone to blame, because it certainly isn’t them.

This conundrum is as unsolvable as a granite sink in a custard pie and by every measure of my insight in human nature and the near future, it will lead to severe societal disruption, bloodshed, anarchy, severe crime and probably something not dissimilar to the soviet collapse in 1989.

These people will become a smaller minority, but all the more radicalized and -again- in denial. And by the 2020s you will either be dealing with this is a uniquely new and unamerican manner, or the US will be a third world nation, or collection of third world nations and some begging to be admitted into the EU or league of pacitfic nations.

Deal with it. I promise if it gets really bad I’ll send powdered milk and cans of spam. And oh right, I know what side *I* will be supporting with discrete arms shipments.