Re your concerns about US global domination

Come on now, enough with the hyperbole. The US has been a superpower for 60 years, the beginning of which was marked with rebuilding Europe and Japan insead of enjoying the spoils of war, then turned to creating international organizations like NATO and the UN as a response to Soviet expansion, and then worked to clean up hotspots like Yugoslavia, Kuwait, and Bosnia.

I can't say I approve every US action in that span of time (particularly in South America and Southeast Asia), but the basis of comparison is the Europeans. This is a group of people who, when they had the power to, raped and pillaged the rest of the planet for 500 years, before just about destroying themselves in two wars. Now suddenly they're the moral compass for the rest of the planet?

>>41

I have no opposition to civilization, and I don't know where you got that idea. I wish you'd have quoted which part of my comments you thought were anti-civilization, so I'd know where you got that idea!

I'm against compulsive systems of organization. If that's how you define civilization I suggest you read the Wikipedia articles on the history of anarchy. Perhaps the reason why you can't imagine another way is because someone doesn't want you to be able to imagine it.

>>42

Basically you're saying "shit sux? colonialism was probably involved!". It's an inane point of view. Yet in point of fact, you're blaming colonialism for *leaving*... if everything was fine, then colonialism "at some point end"ed, and there was a "vacuum of power", which caused shit to sux0r, then I would be inclined to say that the rational conclusion to your argument is "don't let colonialism leave!".

Where is the point where colonialism's presence causes shit to sux0r?