Lost land of the free....

I have never been a big fan of the USA. Its history of hypocrisy and self-centeredness has made it bully of the community of national. But this recent event of the Aqua-teen Hunger Force advertising campaign and the response to it by the city of New York, the national media and the population in general has shown a major c-change in the USA. Perhaps to be fair, others have been talking about since 9/11. The world bully has turned into the scared little girl.

I think its a landmark not because it is another incidence of the the paranoia of the Americans, seeing bogeyman around every corner. Most of the other events (well all i know of) have been plausible, exaggerated but plausible. Having seen the LED signs that were posted around Boston (and other cities (apparently) with no panic) i have to say it would take a tremendous act of will to imagine them as any form of "bomb". Even so, after investigating one of them i becomes irrational to continue with this mindset, and continue it did.

One of the most defining elements of the USA is its idea of freedom of expression. It has survived attacks from all sides and for a plethora of reasons. But i see that this advertising campaign has, implicitly if not legally (its too early to say it will be legally restricted), limited this freedom to things that do not create a fear, however abstract, in the government and the paranoid fringe (I wonder who started this fear-hunt?). Its is ironic that the perpetrator of the greatest injury on the USA is the USA. The terrorists that hit the twin towers, i am curtain, believed there attack would "bring the USA to its senses" (that it could not inflict pain with impunity). What it did was drive the USA deeper into its psychos, causing tit to lash-out not only outwardly to inwardly.

I hope USA, as a government, as a nation and as people, collectively seek counselling. What started out as a mild personality disorder is rapidly turning into psychotic behavior. The worst thing the world needs is a insane super power, we have seen it before, and Nazi Germany nearly drove the world into the abyss. Let us hope the USA find treatment or self destructs (as the Nazis did).