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Why are Americans so utterly devoid of virtue?
Not trying to troll or start a flamewar, I am just genuinely curious.
It seems American culture has zero tolerance for wisdom of any kind. Honesty, integrity, humbleness, sincerity, modesty, all of these things Americans hate. Honesty is weakness, integrity is inflexibility, humbleness is timidity, sincerity is awkward, modesty is puritanism.
I have never seen a society so filled with, what you might call, 'anti-virtues'. Americans have no taste for honest pursuits, and content themselves to live their lives out of line with nature, to great personal ruin. Nobody has ever really explained this phenomena to me, except to dismiss it with one-liners. I have traveled the world extensively, and America alone is one in this regard. Throughout the world people recognize certain things as inherent truths that we often forget about. But when you speak to the soul, it electrifies them. It is within us all, except for the Americans, who despise to hear it, and condemn it with every quiet breath.
Thoughts?
