| From: | Stefan Hahn <HAHN@***.EDU> |
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| Subject: | hmmmmm... |
| Date: | Thu, 14 Apr 1994 20:51:19 -0700 |
The breakup of America from the self-differentiating of it's minority groups (
and EVERYONE is a minority group) is imminent.
The idealistic "melting-pot" concept has always been myth. Look at the
genocide of the native american for your evidence of this hypocrisy. For that
matter, our beloved pilgrims came here because they were better than everyone
else. When each new wave of immigrants came over, they were stereotyped and
ghettoized with amazing speed; the U.S. is and always has been the most
divisive of countries, more along the lines of the "tossed salad" concept.
I mean, at least in South Africa the ruling minority openly persecuted
everyone else. They needed laws, armed troops, and police brutality to prevent
the current mix.
With this as background, advance to the 1950's, when America was the
best and the brightest and everyone in the neighborhood was a WASP. or else.
the KKK thrived and "Guess who's coming to dinner" was an outrage. in 1954 the
TV Dinner was invented and became the concept-du-jour for the nation's
population, segmented into their little compartments.
Today's "Black Pride" movement is even more militant than Malcolm X or
the Black Pnathers were. This is just one example, but the various minority
groups seem to have No Interest in jumping into a melting pot! Everybody wants
to remain separate, and they've been teaching their children for so long it's
become hereditary. (You don't wanna know what kind of hell I've gotten for
dating minorities in a supposedly-liberal state/community) As the recent Rodney
King rioting has shown, as the Anti-Gay initiatives in Oregon and Colorado and
soon where in Washington have shown, as the shooting of the Japanese teenage
tourist has shown, America does not want to stay together.
If current trends continue:
-Increasing divisiveness between racial/religious/sexual/political/etc. groups.
-Fewer voices/role models of unity, more of separation.
-Lack of leadership from a government that has lost the people's respect and
trust. (look at who votes and how many of them.)
-Lower-than-ever education levels.
-Increasing apathy (thank you, Cable TV! Even MORE mind-sucking boob tube!)
-Economic non-viability of the average citizen. (I'm graduating and going home
to live with the Parentals. Jobs that will support you, pay your rent, your
car, your health insurance, your car insurance, your utility bills, etc.etc.
etc. are few. Esp. w/o experience. And now 20% of us are living below the
poverty level. whee!)
...Then I expect something akin to the Cyberpunk world will come into
being.
In SR, the Awakening and other revolutionary elements changed the face
of society, but I doubt the Second American Revolution will come considering it
would require an intelligent leader(s), and those of us who are smart will be
silently taking over this rotting carcass in the megacorporations.
(EX: Why did they bother breaking up Ma Bell? look at what Bell
Atlantic has done since then!)
Therefore (Still with me? Good!) when the bottom drops out, hopefully
not soon, we'll be safe in our ivory towers connected by the MatrixNet. Profit
will hold the country together and keep that disturbing unrest down. Wouldn't
want to dirupt business, now would we? Businesses will take better care of
their employees, not because they care, but because they don't want to see a
disgrutled postal worker show up at the office with an assault rifle again.
Let's hear it for big brother!
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