"Americans have elevated denial to a form of art."

Hungarian acquaintance of mine uttered this today. And he's old enough to remember the revolution.

Thought I'd share it. Valid, you think? Unfair?

Peace.

shaking themselves out of it.

And 'stupid,' too.

We are only exceeded, as I consider it, by the Germans of the 1930s.

But we are catching up on the outside.

NOTE: Equalling the 1930s Germans in levels of denial & living in false realities does NOT mean we will be having Industrialized Death Camps. More likely it will only be Slave Labor Camps.

situation.

I guess the slaves would be the military and sanitation.

quality goods? We are only known for world's deadliest nanny-state police foreign relations.

now.

In that sense - not valid because it's too simplistic.

environment, or some kind of strange educational things happening? Look at how we have handled ourselves during the past 10 or 15 years. We are the dumbest Country in the world. Sad.

What ever edge we had in certain high tech fields will be lost as a result of out sourcing. Thanks Mr. Gates and others. (actually Gates brings in the foreigners with green cards. Same difference)

GM for example keeps whining about labor costs. If they would get the engineers off of the ass and build some great cars, the profits would happen. Why don't they hire the Toyota and Honda engineers away for the other companies? Throw some money at it. The fact that foreign car companies can build the cars in the U.S. with no appreciable drop in quality proves the the engineering is the key.

And management knows that can't possibly be so.

over America. The CEO are thinking like accountants. (That's because they are focusing on their stock options.) So, what we have is a combination of accountants and attorneys planning the strategies and all they want is their few hundred million and they're out of there.

If Japan can design a great car, why can't Detroit? Are Japanese smarter than Americans? I don't really think so. The people with creative engineering skills apparently are being allowed to think and innovate. Too bad. But, that's life. And speaking of life, as the U.S. plummets in it's ability to design and build anything and standards of living are headed downward, it is inevitable that America will be a third world country within 40 years. The rich people will be living in gated enclaves, hiding from the hungry citizens at the walls of their compounds. Sooner or later, all hell will break loose and their money won't do them much good.

Our clothes, our shoes, our food, most of our consumer goods are made by people who have little choice. In much of the world it's work for the yankee dollar or starve. Should you try to organize a labor union you will be found dead or beaten in a ditch. If the police weren't the ones who beat you they will do nothing to protect you.

Every adult who watches television KNOWS THIS IS TRUE. And we do not care. Hell, worse, we make a stink about how "Christian" we are. The denial is killing us. Our college students drink massively to shut something out; what?

They won the cold war, they're fat and happy.

Still your friend makes a very valid point.

I'm so tired of all these generalizations.

Although it is accurate for a minority of people, those lonely 34%.

that 30% used to be 90%.

Sound Bite.

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Tell him thank you for telling it like it is, if you ever see him again.

Remember Nuremberg...

that the nsa spying only happens if one person in a call is "a suspected al qeada" member. Of course that is how the repubs frame it - but reading about it, it is clear that there is no such caveat.

I would call that denial.

Still believing any spin - and not questioning the credibility of the source that has proved to lie and lie again - yep an elevated form of denial.

exist.

Most people go about leading their own narrow lives. Their family, their neighborhood, their friends. What's going on in the rest of the world is only of interest or concern if it somehow intrudes into their comfort zone.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

our national apathy is staggering and embarrassing.

There are people around DU still saying that 9/11 wasn't LIHOP/MIHOP after all the sh*t the BFEE has done the past 5 years! That to me is denial to the nth degree. :crazy:

MIHOP but sometimes I wonder if denial would be better.

A relevant post?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x751011

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