The inability to study what works elsewhere is maybe the clearest symptom. Healthcare stands out - better outcomes at lower cost exist abroad but get dismissed without examination. I've noticed similar patterns in business where successful companies obsessively copy good ideas while failing ones insist their approach is the only way. Humility isn't weakness, its how systems adapt and improve.
I think you are reading the signs all wrong Tanner. America has been helping other countries ever since WW2. And there has been little appreciation. It's not arrogance to defend your country. And in the world of today the projection of resolve and strength requires a willingness to use military muscle. Case in point. Communist incursion into American hemisphere. Cuba, Venezuela, even Canada and Mexico. Communist policy is defeat from within. Subversion, riots--anything to weaken the country from within. The American Left is the face of Communism in America and all other Western nations. Riots are their mainstay. Destabilization is the goal. It's all over the news right now.
You are frighteningly spot on. I have been using "Rot" in my analyses of my local, then international, analyses. I have now identified narcissism at the core. You intimate but do not see this explicitly. The US is navel-gazing narcissism in action.
Do not feel shame: narcissists achieve much - "good" and too much "bad". 'Helpful/hurtful' & 'constructive/destructive' are more healing assessments. Grow these. Progress will come.
I'm American and deeply ashamed of my country right now. I agree with every word you wrote. I hope and pray one day soon we change. Maybe we must go through this awful time under a dictator to learn some hard lessons.
The inability to study what works elsewhere is maybe the clearest symptom. Healthcare stands out - better outcomes at lower cost exist abroad but get dismissed without examination. I've noticed similar patterns in business where successful companies obsessively copy good ideas while failing ones insist their approach is the only way. Humility isn't weakness, its how systems adapt and improve.
I think you are reading the signs all wrong Tanner. America has been helping other countries ever since WW2. And there has been little appreciation. It's not arrogance to defend your country. And in the world of today the projection of resolve and strength requires a willingness to use military muscle. Case in point. Communist incursion into American hemisphere. Cuba, Venezuela, even Canada and Mexico. Communist policy is defeat from within. Subversion, riots--anything to weaken the country from within. The American Left is the face of Communism in America and all other Western nations. Riots are their mainstay. Destabilization is the goal. It's all over the news right now.
You are frighteningly spot on. I have been using "Rot" in my analyses of my local, then international, analyses. I have now identified narcissism at the core. You intimate but do not see this explicitly. The US is navel-gazing narcissism in action.
Do not feel shame: narcissists achieve much - "good" and too much "bad". 'Helpful/hurtful' & 'constructive/destructive' are more healing assessments. Grow these. Progress will come.
I'm American and deeply ashamed of my country right now. I agree with every word you wrote. I hope and pray one day soon we change. Maybe we must go through this awful time under a dictator to learn some hard lessons.