Why can't people admit that with out the USA the world would still be in the dark ages?

Question

What America didn't invent it improved. We have been the world leader in freedom, economics, and the arts almost from the day we became a nation. I say if you loath the US so much I hear that North Korea is nice this time of year and Dear Leader can always use more drones.

Answer 1

Actually if you bother to study history, the concept of there having been a "dark ages" evaporates.

Some nifty technology has been developed in the U.S., but a strange thing is many inventions crop up at the same time in different places. It is like it really is true that an ideas time will come. Probably based on the general body of available knowledge. More true than ever today with information so readily available.

In 1958 I dreamed up the idea of using hydrofoils to shorten the take-off run of amphibious aircraft. I was told by experts that it was not practical. By 1953 the Navy was doing it. It was an idea whose time had come.

The same thing happened with bimodal cathode fluorescent lighting starters. But that only took a year between concept and the announcement by a major company.

Answer 2

While usa has many good qualities , it also has some serious problems. and i sometimes feel that the world wouldnt take notice of america if not for its size.

If america was the size of britain for instance i feel it would have less of a presence in todays world.

I dont understand how capital punishment still exists , no national health service and how so many americans are so blind to the rest of the world.

i do not hate america or americans, i personally dont hate anyone :p but i do feel that sometimes america comes across as the big bully thats only stong point is its size.

many countries have problems and no body is perfect but to put a questions like this, a question that really isnt a question .. more like a rant, is over simplistic and bias

Answer 3

True, the US has been a leader in most everything. But that's because the US is coasting on a surplus of values and growth and principle from decades ago. The problem is what we've been standing for in recent history starting with Iran in 1953. We keep intervening only to have it come back to bite us in the rear:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax

The Iranian turban heads and the Sin Ladens and the Saddams were all our own doing.
Let's become more informed and attend to our own affairs for a change. We do have plenty, right here to keep us busy spending those billions here where it matters.

Answer 4

you need to study the history of science and/ or philosophy. without discoveries like the number 0 and 1 , or algebra, etc there would be no ie; computer, etc. it is all a chain and without those knowledge there would be none of the current inventions. get out of the dark. you act as if you are a kid, are you? why are you so self centered and insecure! how old are you?

Answer 5

Yep. Isn't it funny how the domestic believers that the US is the focus of all evil in the world choose to stick around? And the foreign believers that the US is the focus of all evil make about every third question in Yahoo Answers "how can I get in?? or stay?? or bring by cousin/uncle/fiance in?"

Answer 6

I can agree with you that America is a "leader" on many fronts, but the world would certainly not be in "dark ages." Society itself is progressive.

Answer 7

How about, whatever war America didn't invent it worsen...and since America is the top contaminator of the world... soon we'll be back into another kind of dark ages!

Answer 8

I believe the industrial revolution actually occured in England, and that happened after the dark ages, soooo, I'm thinking you're missing a few steps in your theory there.

Answer 9

You left out self delusion

Answer 10

And this is how the Americans get the reputation for being loud, arrogant, boarish braggarts....go figure!