(July 3, 2014 at 12:33 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: I'm not proud of anything that doesn't have to do directly with my own personal achievements. National pride makes no sense to me.
As for this country, there's a lot in our history, and a lot going on right now, that is nightmarish and wrong. This country is held in thrall by a mindset that the value of a human life is measured by their credit score and the contents of their bank account, that the magic of the free market is the best way to determine who deserves to live and who deserves to die. That's abhorrent.
I disagree with the national pride thing, but I agree with the second paragraph. It's not like the free market isn't necessary, but it can't handle everything by itself, Adam Smith's invisible hand was dead wrong.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
