Are american people are realy stupid as the rest of the world think of them?

Question

Are american people are realy stupid as the rest of the world think of them?

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Americans believe that we quotdeservequot access to all of the planets resources that will satisfy our every basic human need. Clean water, nutritious food, safety from the elements and from the aspects of nature that frighten us are simply expected to be delivered through the stores or the airwaves without end.brbr Americans firmly believe that our needs cannot really be satisfied unless we can also waste most of those resources. This comes from our complete inability to ever understand the reality of quotenoughquot.brbr We want our food quotsupersizedquot but we throw away large portions of what we buy. We want our cars huge, fuel inefficient, poorly designed and heavy in order that we can feel quotsafequot from the other huge, fuel inefficient, poorly designed and heavy vehicles that clog the roads and spew filth into our air. We then sacrifice our own children and the children of the world to keep the cost of that fuel low.brbr We want our swimming pools full and our lawns green and our behemoth, ugly station wagons clean . brbr We want to pour pesticides and fertilizers onto our lawns and farms but we dont want to be reminded where all that toxic crap eventually flows to.brbr Americans just dont give a damn how wasteful and ignorant they are. They just want to get home from work or school so they can turn the TV on and sink into the fog of quotentertainmentquot and quotnewsquot that never makes them feel uncomfortable. Americans dont want to see how the rest of the world lives and the misery and desperation that millions of human beings face every single day so that Americans can continue to wallow in wasteful materialism and ignorant overconsumption. If possible, and the corporate media makes it all quite possible, Americans simply dont want to be depressed or made to feel shame for their consumption of the worlds wealth nor do they want any images placed before them that might make them lose a moments worth of slumber. Hell, Americans just want the rest of the planets passengers to either go away or shut up and let us enjoy our greed and stupidity in comfort.brbr When an American is thirsty, we can just go to the refrigerator for a cold beer or soda or just to the tap for water that we know is clean and healthy. Of course, we also let the tap run for a minute or so to make sure that the water is also cooler. We watch that water go spinning down the drain and I would bet that not one in a thousand Americans can tell you just where that wasted water flows to.brbr For too many of the rest of the worlds inhabitants, water is more precious than gold. When they must endure a drought, you never see American corporate or military might being called on to provide that treasured substance by drilling wells or donating filtration systems or any other assistance. Americans believe that they have no responsibility to help these wretches. Instead, all Americans can muster sympathy for is their own greed and their constant demands for lower and lower taxes and the rest of the worlds needy can go screw themselves.brbr Well, imagine, if you would, your child or your grandchildren or your brothers and sisters being forced to make the most horrendous choices in order to just stay alive for a couple more hours. Imagine the people you love having to make the unbelievably depressing decisions that the dying human beings below have been forced to make.