Have Americans Gone Crazy?

[liveonearth]

I think so. I'm not alone.
Good read here: http://www.salon.com/2015/01/13/have_americans_gone_crazy_partner/

Comments

[bobby1933.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Reinhold Niebuhr once wrote that we are moral people living in an immoral society. That makes sociological sense to me, but it is still sort of a cop out,

Crazy? We are at least szchizophrenic, maybe paranoid (at least our politicians are), maybe "situationally sociopathic" By that i mean that we are capable of caring as long as we are among people who act and think like we do. Outside our comfort zones we become very dangerous.

[liveonearth.livejournal.com]

I'd add narcissistic to the list. And I think what you say about Americans being dangerous outside our comfort zones applies to all humans, all primates, all mammals and probably broader than that.

[bobby1933.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i'd have to agree with that. Maybe i should have said that our comfort zone is way too small.

[liveonearth.livejournal.com]

Agreed. We've become paranoid with narrow worlds.

[neptunia67.livejournal.com]

Yes, I believe we have. I want nothing more than to live elsewhere. Im almost to the point of going whether I have a job or not.

[liveonearth.livejournal.com]

At least there are other places that are worse! Silver linings, my friend. Still, it is healthy to escape from the America the Greatest bubble from time to time.