The Coward David Brooks Blames Us'n Commoners, once again.
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: The Coward David Brooks Blames Us'n Commoners, once again.
Date: Nov 17, 2009 10:13 AM
Article below
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Not without Justice, Buck.
The nation can't mature when we've
adopted the It's All About Me-ims
of psychiatry and Israel (as you would
well know since you described it to us).
The nation can't mature when the innovators
are squashed by the fat pig Bigs and their
corporate henchmen piglets, the "civil
service" union members:
http://www.actionlyme.org/080924.htm
(The ^^ People Can't Get Past the Porkers)
In 2001 I explained the problem with
Pam3Cys to the FDA Vaccine Committee:
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/01/slides/3680s2_11.pdf
But in the Summer of 2008 is when
Anthony Fauci says to hisself, "Self,
I wonder what Pam3Cys is?"
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/9/888
We will recall what was the ENERGY
and therefore ECONOMIC platform of Al
Gore:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_thread/thread/6940a8d9e0024621/8591b95e0ece47f7?q=Bush%2FGore+ENERGY+&rnum=1#8591b95e0ece47f7
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_frm/thread/e4359868117b8d81/e066f6566802741e?q=lehrer+bush+gore+bombs+bursting+in+air&rnum=1#e066f6566802741e
But. No. From the Punditardary of Brooks
and the Israelis, it was decided for us
that we would have failed oil wars, because
that satisfied the Israeli-Pipeliner's agenda
better than anything we might have wanted to
do on *this* side of the Atlantic:
http://www.actionlyme.org/091112.htm
Don't blame us because you and your
ilk are stupid, petty liars who aimed low
for the short-sell and the wild ride AIG
took us on for their offshored bootle and
their tickets to the DUMBs (Deep Underground
Military Bases) and to Australia,... and now
this country is in an irreversible shambles.
No.
We're not accepting the blame for it.
We *CLEARLY* had other plans.
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/opinion/17brooks.html?_r=1&ref=global-home&pagewanted=print
November 17, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
The Nation of Futurity
By DAVID BROOKS
When European settlers first came to North America, they saw flocks of
geese so big that it took them 30 minutes to all take flight and
forests that seemed to stretch to infinity. They came to two
conclusions: that God’s plans for humanity could be completed here,
and that they could get really rich in the process.
This moral materialism fomented a certain sort of manic energy.
Americans became famous for their energy and workaholism: for moving
around, switching jobs, marrying and divorcing, creating new products
and going off on righteous crusades.
It may seem like an ephemeral thing, but this eschatological faith in
the future has motivated generations of Americans, just as religious
faith motivates a missionary. Pioneers and immigrants endured hardship
in the present because of their confidence in future plenty.
Entrepreneurs start up companies with an exaggerated sense of their
chances of success. The faith is the molten core of the country’s
dynamism.
There are also periodic crises of faith. Today, the rise of China is
producing such a crisis. It is not only China’s economic growth rate
that produces this anxiety. The deeper issue is spiritual. The
Chinese, though members of a famously old civilization, seem to
possess some of the vigor that once defined the U.S. The Chinese are
now an astonishingly optimistic people. Eighty-six percent of Chinese
believe their country is headed in the right direction, compared with
37 percent of Americans.
The Chinese now have lavish faith in their scientific and
technological potential. Newsweek and Intel just reported the results
of their Global Innovation Survey. Only 22 percent of the Chinese
believe their country is an innovation leader now, but 63 percent are
confident that their country will be the global technology leader
within 30 years. The majority of the Chinese believe that China will
produce the next society-changing innovation, while only a third of
Americans believe the next breakthrough will happen here, according to
the survey.
The Cultural Revolution seems to have produced among the Chinese the
same sort of manic drive that the pioneer and immigrant experiences
produced among the Americans. The people who endured Mao’s horror have
seen the worst life has to offer and are now driven to build some
secure footing. At the same time, they and their children seem
inflamed by the experience of living through so much progress so
quickly.
“Do you understand?” one party official in Shanxi Province told James
Fallows of The Atlantic, “If it had not been for Deng Xiaoping, I
would be behind an ox in a field right now. ... Do you understand how
different this is? My mother has bound feet!”
The anxiety in America is caused by the vague sense that they have
what we’re supposed to have. It’s not the per capita income, which the
Chinese may never have at our level. It’s the sense of living with
baubles just out of reach. It’s the faith in the future, which is
actually more important.
China, where President Obama is visiting, invites a certain sort of
reverie. It is natural, looking over the construction cranes, to think
about the flow of history over decades, not just day to day. And it
becomes obvious by comparison just how far the U.S. has drifted from
its normal future-centered orientation and how much this rankles.
The U.S. now has an economy shifted too much toward consumption, debt
and imports and too little toward production, innovation and exports.
It now has a mounting federal debt that creates present indulgence and
future hardship.
Americans could once be confident that their country would grow more
productive because each generation was more skilled than the last.
That’s no longer true. The political system now groans to pass
anything easy — tax cuts and expanding health care coverage — and is
incapable of passing anything hard — spending restraint, health care
cost control.
The standard thing these days is for Americans to scold each other for
our profligacy, to urge fiscal Puritanism. But it’s not clear
Americans have ever really been self-disciplined. Instead, Americans
probably postponed gratification because they thought the future was a
big rock-candy mountain, and if they were stealing from that, they
were robbing themselves of something stupendous.
It would be nice if some leader could induce the country to salivate
for the future again. That would mean connecting discrete policies —
education, technological innovation, funding for basic research — into
a single long-term narrative. It would mean creating regional
strategies, because innovation happens in geographic clusters, not at
the national level. It would mean finding ways to tamp down
consumption and reward production. The most pragmatic guide for that
remains Michael Porter’s essay in the Oct. 30, 2008, issue of Business
Week.
As the financial crises ease, it would be nice if Americans would once
again start looking to the horizon.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci