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Abstraction · 61-69, M
On a range of measures, including Human Development Index, I would suggest Norway is.
USA is a great country in many ways. But it's lost its ability to have rational conversations - the basis of democracy - and lost a good deal of its humanity.
[i]"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"[/i]
Now the poor and homeless are despised mercilessly and the storied pomp of the billionaires is celebrated. "Send these"? The Wall is now the symbol of America for many, not the statue of liberty.
(My country is sliding down the same path, as is any nation where Murdoch controls the message and the ultra-right are in power.)
USA is a great country in many ways. But it's lost its ability to have rational conversations - the basis of democracy - and lost a good deal of its humanity.
[i]"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"[/i]
Now the poor and homeless are despised mercilessly and the storied pomp of the billionaires is celebrated. "Send these"? The Wall is now the symbol of America for many, not the statue of liberty.
(My country is sliding down the same path, as is any nation where Murdoch controls the message and the ultra-right are in power.)