[quote=FlyerInHi]We will see spdrun.
Some people think I’m a China sycophant. But not at all. I just worry that we are not keeping up. While we worry about Muslims, China is inventing new things.
While we are satisfied that we are the greatest, they are learning and becoming high tech and making money.
You want to stay the greatest, don’t you? You want to stay the richest?[/quote]
it is human nature to be complacent and arrogant on the top. This is why the underdog often come up ahead, and it is often the guy trailing throughout the entire race that edges ahead and wins the race.
China is case in point. It was so arrogant and complacent of its mighty status that all others were viewed as mere barbarians. that mentality was the reason why it was unable to reform and implement Western thoughts and innovations but Japan (the guy running that distant 2nd in the East Asian world) was able to and turn around and launch a full on assault of China.
I see the US doing much of the same. Huge number of Americans are extremely ignorant of the rest of the world, and lack the most fundamental understanding of the competition out there. I do wish the average Americans can have half of the knowledge base Brian has.
The saving grace for America is ultimately the immigrants. Immigrants from the 40-50’s (Jews and Eastern Europeans), immigrants from the 60-70’s (Persians and Vietnamese and Cubans), immigrants from the 80’s (Koreans, Taiwanese), immigrants in the 90’s to now (Chinese, Indian, Arab), and ultimately the steady flow of immigrants from Mexico and other Latin Americans throughout the entire last century. Has it not been for this continuous influx of the world’s best and brightest, America would have already started its decline several decades prior. Because it has been the immigrants propping up this country, no wonder White America feel they are being “discriminated.”
