‘For some people it will always be 1968’

The Now Americans.

“These erstwhile American citizens do not think of themselves as actual Americans (although they play them easily and glibly on TV), but as a new and better breed that only retain their ‘American’ status for the present benefits. Instead they prefer to think of themselves as inhabiting a rarer, more personally fragrant realm of ideals that the rest of us do not see and cannot aspire to.

“In their own strangely perverse way the inhabitants of this realm, like those on the extreme lower end of the scale in imploding 3rd world countries, are still dependent on nation states, particularly the United States, for charity and scarce resources. This need accounts for much of the funding of the United Nations, an organization whose thirst for the perfect world in the very near future (We promise) is exceeded only by its thirst for American money in the here and now. Dreams do not require food and protection, only the dreamers dreaming from their unshakable sleep.”

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/enemies_foreign_domestic/the_notsogreat_generation.php#013023

(In these people lives a form of Calvinism – My kind and I are to lead because we know more than you, we have more than you, we are imbued with special insight as to what is best for you. If we were not fated to lead, we would not have all these things.

(Of course, the word-spewers of talk-TV (disguised as “news”) are not truly members of the cosmopolis, but defenders and upholders for their betters. The news-speakers talk to and for each other and in their agreements, know we are converted. Certainly we must agree with them, for they are who they are. Perhaps they will be allowed into the cosmopolis club, but not likely. Patted on the head, told “Good boy” or “Good girl,” slathering at compliments, or tingling, the news-speakers will continue to preach and defend ideas of cosmopolitanism.)