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In Reply to: Re: Something missing posted by Farmer on October 11, 2008 at 04:13:12:
Hi Farmer. My post would never be widely popular or accepted by Americans. I would be tarred and feathered.
This would happen not because of an intellectual barrier but because of a type of cultural blindness that prevents them from seeing some things that non-Americans do. Because part of their cultural baggage is self-reliance (nothing wrong with that) the notion that the government should provide the means to protect those who are weak (health care for the poor) is seen as anathema. Their code word for this type of things is "socialism".
For many of us who were in TF it was normal to share just about everything imaginably that is/was not too terribly personal (I never shared my toothbrush). But what is happening in the USA is not surprising because it results from a high degree of unchecked greed and religious fanaticism.
Doesn't that sound like The Family? Greed and religion go together in the USA, and greed and religion go together well in the way TF works.
To replace money and power, the little people in TF get sex (lots of it) and happily enslave themselves away while their leaders get rich by keeping all the money, have all the sex all over, and have all the power. How different is TF from the USA culture? The wqay I see it, not much.
