Size matters…and so do ideas

First on size in 2006.

The USA is huge in most categories: economic, cultural, financial, and even military.

The old Chinese proverb that our ancestors honor is all their own applies to all today.

Our hugeness today is from our ancestors aggressiveness and our constitution.

Our USA hugeness was and is not preordained.

And now we Americans again come to face and realize the world is bigger than us in 2006, and full of hatreds that go back beyond our imaginations and history.

And there are other nation-states and tribes just as large as us in preserving their future for their children in their own way.

The stamp of western culture and especially the USA culture is enormous throughout the world.
As a Marine with two plus years overseas, I have observed the effects of the filth of American culture and Hollywood’s depiction of same. This observation has often been on local TV and radio, seen in young people’s behavior and dress in Okinawa and Danish clubs and the music they dance to, on the commuter trains of Japan and USA city subways, and the advertising billboards in Istanbul, Tokyo, and Stockholm. Even the large amount of satellite TV dishes popping up in Kuwait City after the Iraqi’s were evicted says legions.

The American dream is huge in its perception throughout the world. The immigration numbers alone say it all in immigration to the USA, and even the EU countries.

The negative impacts of world globalization are huge enough to turn world history back to tribes and away from nation-states.

The world’s population is becoming huge.

The potential of propaganda is huge as the available means of communications becomes huge.

Ideas that recognize hugeness do matter.

Along the way of human history, a group of men created the USA and its constitution.

In human history, this is unique because it is working.

The USA idea has never happened before.

Even the present friction within Islam is a distracter for all the Islamic family people I know. The Islam world population is huge, 1.4 billion people I read. The Islam fascist population is most likely around 100,000 to include fighters. The actual leaders and financiers are a much much smaller number.

Large groups of people are consuming the rainforests for group advancement and economic gain in the third world. Ask any research anthropologist about what is happening in Borneo, for example, and he will say the Chinese are particularly aggressive. Often this means local Chinese, not overseas Chinese. Watch any recent video (including HDNET) that makes China’s urbanization look good, and I wonder where did all the wood furniture come from. Of course, I know, or think I know.

If I were a parent in any rural tribal area in the world I would defend my family against any outsider influence. This statement does not make us morally equivalent. It is just a statement of the local tribal resistance to world hugeness. This also applies to USA urban tribal areas. When NOGIN has girls making out as part of “teen” programming, enough is enough.

Huge numbers count. One one-hundredth of one percent (00.01%) of a billion person tribe is 100,000 people. That’s a lot of people.

The huge explosion of communication means also expands the power of ideas and organizing ideas and efforts.

The emancipation of women, especially if spread throughout the world, is huge.

There is an element of our USA society, probably a large percent, that thinks our way of life and power is permanent, as if that is how the world and history is. Their wonderful efforts to “improve” society in their image scare me as they may “kill the goose that lays the golden egg”.

And then there are the USA people who seek power and control of huge public monies for their personal purposes. Some are altruistic, and some are just plain mean power mongers with egos to match. Their potential effects are enormous.

Another big number in the USA is a charity element that is part of our American psyche? Where I live there is a big charity element. It is almost 100% to local benefit…our people do the work for altruistic/golden rule reasons.

The huge world population will affect our world environment. Some of the effects (like pollution) may be bad for us, and some of the effects (like more food) may be good for us. Don’t let others think and report for you, just let science and time work to inform you. On global warming, I think mother nature is still mostly in charge. It is other human impacts in the next 5 generation that should be of more concern. The previous statement is a trick question as to what a generation is? Well it depends on male or female and even what part of the world. The answer to keep it simple is to use 30 years as a “generation”.

Boycotts can be huge. Voting with pocket books in the western societies can be really huge. Apply it anyway you might choose. I choose Hollywood movies; and reports the industry is suffering makes me happy, even if it is for other reasons. Just read movie descriptions and I wonder where did somebody get money to make this filth, joke, or admiring a low life. That I will pay for entertainment, yes. That I will not pay for movies that I object to, yes.

“It’s my families prospects for the future and way of life, stupid.”