tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29098653.post115915214696390997..comments2024-01-15T17:35:45.210+11:00Comments on Northern Planets: Hoodwinked AmericansVlad the Impalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06581503726912398643noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29098653.post-1159233638151208792006-09-26T11:20:00.000+10:002006-09-26T11:20:00.000+10:00Sorry mate, but the short answer is the correct on...Sorry mate, but the short answer is the correct one. It's not necessarily that these people are <I>born</I> stupid - although you seem, in concert with many other well-meaning but cloistered intellectuals, to credit Joe Average with more abstract-thinking ability than he actually possesses - but they're certainly <I>brought up</I> stupid. Sure, there are mushroom farms everywhere, but the USA has darker, better fertilised, more culturally-embedded ones than any other First World country. I may come from a nation where superstition, gossip and Chinese whispers form the basis of the cultural persona, but <I>my</I> country is a tiny one with no vast military arsenal to back up the voice of its idiots.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com