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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Your main problem would be the 'average' american. Society teaches us that each american owns their own little piece of america and their own set of material goods. It would be difficult to overcome this -- greed -- americanism.
you make a great point that america makes less and less here, depending on china for raw goods and a handful of places for energy needs and other resources. a general strike in china, or in the middle east, either for instance would begin to create real havoc in the US.
because ultimately i agree about so many americans,.. it is not their fault though, they are the most propagandized population in the world,.. at least three solid generations of daily, constant propaganda.
but that is really only relevant for intellectual conversions,.. i agree that is doubtful,.. but material conversions? the day they pull up to the gas station and there is no gas?.. drive to the next one and no gas,.. and so on... these kinds of inevitable material shortages will begin to spark some thinking, maybe some listening.
i have found that once people take just a few minutes to reconsider the propaganda, to doubt and dissemble the american mythology, they find whole new avenues of thought open up to them.
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