>>Why are Americans from Mars, and Europeans from Venus?<<
They lost the puritans?
(tee hee -- wait, I don't have my flame suit on yeeEAAARRRGH!)
Back to Earth--
Is it me, or does the word "imperialist" just not show up in the general American lexicon? I hear it all the time (well, a lot) from the other side of the pond when the subject is America. Does a falling off of geopolitical influence automatically precipitate a rise in political criticism from the common folk as they watch some other country swell to disturbing proportions?
(It's always disturbing when someone else has the Power.)
Somehow, we've become the new Romans. There are at least a few distinct parallels in how we police the place, not to mention in how we're eyed suspiciously just about everywhere. But then it seems obvious this would be the case no matter what country happened to be the 'sole superpower' on the planet.
They lost the puritans?
(tee hee -- wait, I don't have my flame suit on yeeEAAARRRGH!)
Back to Earth--
Is it me, or does the word "imperialist" just not show up in the general American lexicon? I hear it all the time (well, a lot) from the other side of the pond when the subject is America. Does a falling off of geopolitical influence automatically precipitate a rise in political criticism from the common folk as they watch some other country swell to disturbing proportions?
(It's always disturbing when someone else has the Power.)
Somehow, we've become the new Romans. There are at least a few distinct parallels in how we police the place, not to mention in how we're eyed suspiciously just about everywhere. But then it seems obvious this would be the case no matter what country happened to be the 'sole superpower' on the planet.
