Reply #7: Sadly....stronger internal forces at work here... [View All]

[HardWorkingDem]

This will be a very hard thing to get back to. Our American persona has developed into such a complex individual aspect that probably will prevent this.

Think of all these changes to American society that work against this - and it benefits those that sell everything to us.

Give me a minute here - take the air conditioner or American front porch and what it means to society. When I first bring this us, people at first laugh, but when thinking of it, they start to see the bigger picture.

There are a few things that have drastically changed this country. And so many of them are turning us into something like individual little units that just buy and buy and buy. The air conditioner has pushed us back into our homes and we now escape all our neighbors and become less of a community.

The loss of the American front porch or the need for a front porch is doing the same. The television has allowed us to re-create a little media center within our homes so we can further remove ourselves from each other.

Then there is the American automobile. It is another shell to protect us from our fellow Americans. It protects our private space and lets us become better docile and manageable organisms.

I mean, what American wants to sit next to someone that he or she can't choose to?