coorperate america.  i dont think anyone in this country realizes how true this 
statement really is.  i hate coorperations.  i mean, they dont bother me as long as i 
dont have to deal with them, but still even then, the thot of how they operate, the 
things they do to people, still boil my blood.  but thats how things work in big 
business.  industrialization beyond the point of necessity.  thats what coorperation and 
big business are.  the result of the industrial revolution going too far.

no..  now wait, coorperate has been around for a long time.  sweatshops, factories, etc.  
i think what coorperate america is better summed up in is the "sheep" side of people.  
too many people today are just zombified by the media, suburbia, the government.  theyre 
minds are nulled just to the point that they let the sheepish side of them control their 
future.  one can easily look at a coorperation and see very soon that it is made of the 
stupid wolves at the top controlling all the stupid sheep at the bottom.  not a lot of 
incredibly bright people involved.  of course, there have to be some intelligent people 
in there somewhere, to keep things rolling.  but anyone with some broad perspective would 
hate to be a part of coorperation.  anyone with insight into what it does to society and 
families and just the general feeling of well being as a nation will just dispise how it 
preys on people's need for money and turns it into the want for money, then uses both to 
turn the sheep into slaves.

and thats what america itself has become, with all the stupid wolves at the top, in 
washington or where ever.  the vast majority of people meander through their lives with 
an externally induced short distance perspective (the idea that the world is small.  
sounds like not that much of a problem, but hardly anyone really contemplates on how big 
the world is and what that should mean to them) and focus all their energies on making it 
in the world.  here's the american agenda for life:  be a good kid, get exactly 17 years 
of schooling in, get a white collar job, support a family while they do their first steps 
of this process, keep working (living) long enough to see yourself 2 generations down the 
line, then (last step) dont leave any debts behind.  preferably build up some kind of 
worth, then leave that to your family to make their time easier than yours.  but 
DEFINITELY don't leave less than 0 behind.  when i think about how many people actually 
follow this short sighted agenda, it makes my heart wail.  cuz for some reason, nobody 
thought to put in there time for self-improvement.  a period for yourself to yourself 
where you explore your own mind, the world, your potentials, the worlds potentials, etc.  
i dont think any life is complete without a long period of discovery.  no one human mind 
has reached its potential unless it discovers (in the deep recesses of itself) the 
yearning for knowledge and completeness and fulfills it with a true dedication to 
learning for pleasure, discovery of the world, and inner development (commonly in the 
form of meditation).  just 3 small concepts that can enrich a person's life, give meaning 
to existence, and make such a peace in oneself that there is no earthly blissful 
comparison.  when the human mind finds silence, it needs no further heaven.

america is the superpower that it is today because of its incredibly clever manipulation 
of its people.  america has NO CULTURE.  no real deep rooted history.  we're a baby 
nation in a world of elders.  but that obviously hasnt kept us from attaining supreme 
(haha) power in the world.  the reason we're able to hold such a high rank in the race 
for world domination is because all it takes for that is numbers.  vast seas of people 
and technology (and the more people you have, the more technology you can afford).  the 
thing we as a young nation can NOT attain just from what we have thus far (numbers) is a 
general, nation-encompassing aura of happiness.  a sense in almost all inhabitants that 
there is an order to life, that a person can follow their heart first and foremost and 
still succeed in life.  and HONOR.  america is a plague upon the world because it has 
destroyed honor.  without a long lineage, americans dont see the reason for taking a 
physical beating instead of pulling out a gun.  there is no underlying order to life in 
all americans, so theres nothing to compell them to live by any rules of honor.  old 
nations, people with a sense that life has been around for thousands of thousands of 
years, seem to have a much higher respect for life itself and thusly are able to live by 
a simple code of honor.  and since most americans have demolished the idea of honor, the 
rest of us cannot survive without letting go of some of our own to keep up.  and 
the "american trend" has been set worldwide.  you can easily see a person from another 
country that just ..seems so american.  a really good example that comes to mind is that 
chinese guy in the movie Snatch.  the one that shot bullettooth tony 6 times.  "I shoot 
you!  you go down!  yeah!"  lol, that guy is so hopelessly american.  just such a loud 
soul.  maybe its not just america's fault.  maybe theres something in the human mind that 
can account for this american attitude.

my utopia is a nice one.  its kind of hard to imagine, because of all the things we're 
used to.  but, recently i came upon the idea that the government and all it is, all the 
people it employs, are really just like another gang on the street, so to speak.  theyre 
just other people and their sole job is to enforce what their boss says.  and they get 
paid to do so.  a good expression of what im trying to say is in the movie heat (this is 
the scene i was watching when i came upon this idea).  its the scene where al pacino and 
robert deniro are having a cup of coffee, talking about their lives.  we're all people 
here on this huge rock of earth.  we all do our own things, cook, sew, dig, count, make, 
transport.  theres no real essential role that government plays.  government is really 
just the majority of a nation's peoples getting together and building a defense against 
the stupider, louder, more irresponsible souls of their society.  theyre just 
an "official", widely supported gang.  if a society were able to isolate itself and get 
rid of most of the stupid population (stupid in this context is used for violent, 
ambitious, and hateful) and then suddenly get rid of its government completely, i think 
it would still be able to sustain itself.  crime is the greatest risk, but like i said, 
if they were able to keep that from happening much (with a system of honor that everyone 
feels ok with abiding by and a communal feeling of brotherhood) they would be able to 
operate completely.  freedom from any stereotypical form of life that would be imposed on 
them by a media and government, free from the worry of defending one's heaping pile of 
stuff and building it higher, and finally finally free to roam and explore their 
surroundings with confidence.  but maybe, once crime and government and media were 
eliminated, the desire to roam the earth would disappear as well.  maybe a desire to 
develop one's mind would arise.  hopefully.

i like my utopia.  it resembles old china and pre-china tibet.  i used to think when i 
was in grade school that i was incredibly lucky to have been born in the usa because we 
have so much and life isnt a struggle like it is some places.  but ive come to dispise 
where ive been born in favor of a place where my mind would be free instead of my hands.