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I wish all the best for the U.S., but this country has only presented fear and obstacles to my family, and demands loyalty, recognition. I am a Citizen of the W

I wish all the best for the U.S., but this country has only presented fear and obstacles to my family, and demands loyalty, recognition. I am a Citizen of the World, and it will be strictly incidental should I corroborate with the U.S. in any way. I bring peace and sharing — But I will not be lied to, and I will not be coerced into a lifestyle not of my choosing, and I will not be intimidated. I deserve better. The United States has driven me to a life of constant fear, fear not based in delusion but in the severe mismanagement of its society. Daily I find myself at the mercy of its community, whose fear shake the seat of my soul: beliefs of technological domination, spying, etc. I will no longer provide free consultation, on doorsteps or coffeeshops; nor will I abide the complaints of American peoples. Of this decaying society (U.S.), its peoples will manically accuse anarchism or even the grossest fictions, due to an untrained intellect. Of this decaying society (U.S.), its people must find someone to blame — at which point anarchism becomes indistinguishable from treason. The United States has mismanaged not only its government; it has injected a venom against intimacy, intelligence, and true investigation. I cannot trust the United States to secure my freedom of intimacy, freedom of intelligence, nor can I trust its integrity or investigation. I find it disrespectful to myself and undermining to my initiatives to qualify my identity with "U.S. Citizen." In any event, most people who look at me assume I do not speak English. You cannot coerce someone into looking like an American, and a majority of Americans only look at me with abjection or fear since I have "wild" dreadlocks, which to them look unkept. In many cities, I am heckled on the street with terms like "nigger" and "faggot"; and in polite society, potential peers are taken aback at my personal history ("You can't REALLY be from there!") or even the mere fact that I am a trained philosopher and Web developer. In many ways I look like a "primitive" man largely on account of very matured dreadlocks, and this society is simply too naive, sexually repressed to allow for people who look like Russell Brand to walk the streets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADJhErmJuoQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADJhErmJuoQ. Every one of my days in public with you Americans reminds me of that interview. Even yesterday some square approached me to ask if rolling up one pant-leg was a "new fashion thing." I will not be trapped in a country of style-vultures-spies-after-our-personal-brands XOR complaint-ridden-poverty-stricken. I deserve better.

wavefunction 13y ago
You sound as close-minded as some of the people you're railing against. A square? What does "an American" look like? I look pretty "normal" or at least my outward appearance is intentionally low-key and non-descript. For me it is the internal that is important though someone who puts a high priority on external ornamentation as an indicator of personality and character would never know if you just went by my external appearance.
- wittysense 13y ago
  "For me it is the internal that is important though someone who puts a high priority on external ornamentation as an indicator of personality and character would never know if you just went by my external appearance." Liar. It's "external appearances" all the way down to the colorscheme you use for syntax highlighting. I find it absolutely titillating, electrifying that it's perfectly well and good for Terrance McKenna or someone else to cry that we're all consumer whores; and that we've unearthed all this evidence about the The Fed and its goal to turn us into hyperconsumerists. But you have to be a certain kind of ethnic in order to cry it from the inside. "Just leave!" or "we're so cerebral!" Yeah, now, after about 50 years of culturally conditioned guilt and the Failure of the Extrovert education agenda. No yr all too fearful to say anything provocative except what yr console tells you. Yet another reason to, yes "Please, leave the US." You're all living so cushy, there's no genuine reason for you to "rail" against anyone. You're just passing the time while you compile.
- wittysense 13y ago
  It is beyond me that you read my first paragraph and probably started thinking "close-minded." It's beyond me that you fail to see the sense of betrayal and defeatism in a person who feels cheated by his country. Did you even read the post, actually ? You found ONE word, which I in fact tried to use to conceal the fact that I was talking about a person generally of the West, and not specifically American, -- you found that ONE word to harp on. Your entire response is nothing more than a turn on that one term, one word, which plays a very insignificant role in the entire post. And the rest you ignored, unless you forget that America is the leading consumer power of the world. Did you actually read the post ? Americans, for the most part, today behave like a large population of people who have been systematically acculturated with principles of consumerism. I am here sharing my grievances with that, and these effects of their personality will ultimately prove negative in the face of a world (a set of countries) which can easily and readily identify members of a (hyper)consumerist culture. Just that. That. Read it twice if you have to. It's called a spade. If calling a spade makes you want to tell me to "leave," considering what the spade is: You leave, consumer-programmer.

wavefunction 13y ago

You sound as close-minded as some of the people you're railing against. A square? What does "an American" look like? I look pretty "normal" or at least my outward appearance is intentionally low-key and non-descript. For me it is the internal that is important though someone who puts a high priority on external ornamentation as an indicator of personality and character would never know if you just went by my external appearance.

wittysense 13y ago
"For me it is the internal that is important though someone who puts a high priority on external ornamentation as an indicator of personality and character would never know if you just went by my external appearance." Liar. It's "external appearances" all the way down to the colorscheme you use for syntax highlighting. I find it absolutely titillating, electrifying that it's perfectly well and good for Terrance McKenna or someone else to cry that we're all consumer whores; and that we've unearthed all this evidence about the The Fed and its goal to turn us into hyperconsumerists. But you have to be a certain kind of ethnic in order to cry it from the inside. "Just leave!" or "we're so cerebral!" Yeah, now, after about 50 years of culturally conditioned guilt and the Failure of the Extrovert education agenda. No yr all too fearful to say anything provocative except what yr console tells you. Yet another reason to, yes "Please, leave the US." You're all living so cushy, there's no genuine reason for you to "rail" against anyone. You're just passing the time while you compile.
wittysense 13y ago
It is beyond me that you read my first paragraph and probably started thinking "close-minded." It's beyond me that you fail to see the sense of betrayal and defeatism in a person who feels cheated by his country. Did you even read the post, actually ? You found ONE word, which I in fact tried to use to conceal the fact that I was talking about a person generally of the West, and not specifically American, -- you found that ONE word to harp on. Your entire response is nothing more than a turn on that one term, one word, which plays a very insignificant role in the entire post. And the rest you ignored, unless you forget that America is the leading consumer power of the world. Did you actually read the post ? Americans, for the most part, today behave like a large population of people who have been systematically acculturated with principles of consumerism. I am here sharing my grievances with that, and these effects of their personality will ultimately prove negative in the face of a world (a set of countries) which can easily and readily identify members of a (hyper)consumerist culture. Just that. That. Read it twice if you have to. It's called a spade. If calling a spade makes you want to tell me to "leave," considering what the spade is: You leave, consumer-programmer.