How has your perception of the U.S. changed over your lifetime?

Question

In a very general sense mine has changed substantially.

When I was a kid, the U.S. seemed like a really great place full of all sorts of happy people doing fun things, enjoying life, and being friendly with each other.

Now it's become some weird place where the people aren't in touch with their government, where people are more concerned about pumping themselves up instead of just enjoying life. People seem reactive and more interested also in talking about things like 9/11 and terrorists instead of being a nice big pluralistic society where people like each other.

And how has your perception changed?

Answer 1

As children we are stupid, we don't know any better and we always think what we're told. I wasn't much different when it came to America. I always assumed that the Constitution was applicable and that justice was prevalent. I honestly believed that America had morals and that we were respectable. I was a kid, I was stupid. I look around and see the crucial flaws and the fact that our legal system is designed with so many loopholes you can literally get away with murder so long as you can find them. I realize how much our history books lied, and that there is no such thing as a free media. The media is designed to be sold to the highest bidder so that he who can back his checks can assign the illusion of free press the job of passing his or her propaganda on to the public. I realize that this nation was built to cater to the rich, and that each of our founding fathers had an ulterior motive. I see first hand that we failed democracy as a principle and as an idea, and that we have designated ourselves as a racially charged super power that hides the truth from our own people while we go out and rape and pillage the world to come back and preach the virtue of Americanism. It is clear that we are egotistical hypocritical lying b@stards who will never amount to anything else until we collapse as an empire. As children we are ignorant, and as adults many Americans choose to continue to be so, it is so much easier to be stupid than to go and seek knowledge that hasn't been filtered tainted or re-written by America, so that the people can continue to be bloated on their self-righteousness. Like Communism, America in theory was far better than America in practice, we are trained like dogs to be flag wagging puppets who hate everything we don't have the capacity to understand or embrace, and to attack anyone or anything that doesn't recognize our supremacy or attempts to point out that we are immoral, close-minded, arrogant imbeciles with no desire to change. Even when these people are those we love, or even our fellow Americans. Most Americans are too stupid to see through the visage or even realize how easily they are trained and manipulated, while they pretend they are free. Oh and I'll gladly take the hatemail for this that proves my point and smile as I watch the puppets pour out their hearts into their empty heads protesting my response in those that are to follow. The Love it or leave it's, the 'Look how we've helped' whiners, the "Terrorist" stampers, the simple minded folks who can only muster a few curses and some low blows at my education and state of mind, even the heroes who were in the military and unfortunately fell victim to the Americanization process and were too impressionable to escape the false ideas and concepts that were implanted in them. Their ignorance is more obvious than anything else, but it isn't entirely their fault. Americans will continue to hate me and all those who think act or talk like me, and as they grow older the blame is increasingly theirs as they are given so many opportunities to get educated to become intelligent, independent humans instead remaining the typical brain washed American fools they are. Liberty weeps and Americans turn their faces for fear that truth may be known, and they will be unable to deny it any further.

Answer 2

I thought we would of had flying cars by now. I also thought we would of been safer, instead we are being stripped from the inside out. Our government is allowing companies to outsource our jobs. Which is leading to unemployment in this country. The borders are not secured I mean I have no problem with a family coming across the border to make a better life for themself but I just don't want one day a major city is destroyed by terrorist and finding out that they came across the border. I also thought we would of been past the racial issues but everything is "white this" "black this" "hispanic this".
To wrap it up It seems like we are going backwards instead of forward. I won't be surprise if America become a third world country in the not to distant future.

Answer 3

It seems as a nation we are self satisfied and smug. We seem to think we have the right to dictate to the rest of the world how everyone should live. Politicians are more concerned with keeping their jobs than in doing what would be best for the country. In their quest for dollars we have lost sight of some more important values---family and friends. We have forgotten how to play---we want to entertained.

Answer 4

Nothing will because man's perception of reality is at an individual level, not as a collective gathering.

Answer 5

As a kid I thought the U.S. could do no wrong and that our enemys were Hitler types. I thought the government was run by selfless people who were there to do good. Man, was I wrong. I realize now that our enemys are a direct result of our involvment backing bad governments and that those who run our government are selfish and greedy and their first thought is whats in it for them and their cronies.

Answer 6

Yes sadly. Today it is Greed,Ungodliness,Immorality,Extreme Governmental Corruption,,Lawlessness and destruction of the Judaeo Christian Family values with the influx of heathens and the occult.

Answer 7

yeah you pretty much nailed it accept when reading history I think I was deluded then, but this whole be scared thing is pretty much new here but has been done b4 by the really big terrorists and I do not mean arabs, cuz they are small potatoes