Sunday, January 09, 2005
www.mike-morgan.com - weblog: Why Does the U.S. Get to Make All the Rules?
I found this post from the I-Tach weblog deserves to be commented:
This is a typical example of the category :" I am a extremist with an extremist opinion, but I have no idea what I am talking about and I refuse to think about it". This has nothing to do with rational behavior. This is just the expression of irrational aggressiveness and feelings of superiority.
Don't forget that the whole thing is not about ruling its about making the right decisions. Have you seen "A beautiful mind"? The point which astonished me the most about this movie was the Nash equilibrium. This is not surpirsing since Nash was awarded the Nobel-prize for his finding. This mathematical model might be in part applicable to predict the possible outcome of any aspect of life where people strive for succes, though it might be sometimes difficult to define the exact rules of the game. If the US is not trying to coordinate their interests with the rest of the world to increase their domestic profit the rest of the world will do the same. As a result every member of the world will make less profit. This is because the US has the superiority but not supremacy in the world which means in other words it's the leader of the world but its still part of the world. If US makes the wrong decisions they might loose their superiority sooner than you expect. The rest of the world is not sleeping.
It is also wrong to say the US started form nothing 229 years ago. The US started as a colony of Europe with the crossing of the atlantic ocean by christopher columbus more than 500 years ago. 229 years ago , in 1776, was the declaration of independence when 13 colonies split from Britan. You can't really think that this is a start from nothing. This means the USA had an ahead start due to the transfer of know-how and human recources from Europe to the US. Until today the USA imports human recourses and know-how from all over the world which is good for the economic superiority of the USA. This inflow might cease if the USA favors "un-fair" play from now on. Moreover USA does not rule since 229 years but only since 10 or 20 years or so since the end of the cold war. This means the position of the USA today is the result of a lot of right decisions of the USA in the past 60 years or so. I hope the US keeps up the good work. Yet, if the US administration makes the wrong decisions, they might easily mess up the whole world. Smart politics made the US strong, not sledgehammer methods. If you are a leader, you will be more successful if you are supported by those you lead - E pluribus unum
[...] One of these years, the U.S. will elect a president .... who will have the balls .... to not worry about placation or hurt feelings, and will honestly answer the lame question, "Why should the U.S. be the country that makes all the decisions?"
Whiners worldwide have been asking this...:
The truth is plain and simple: the U.S. gets the biggest say in things because, within a measly 229 years, starting from nothing at all, we've built the most powerful, most experienced, richest, most generous, and most scientifically and technologically advanced country on earth.
Deal with it!!
This is a typical example of the category :" I am a extremist with an extremist opinion, but I have no idea what I am talking about and I refuse to think about it". This has nothing to do with rational behavior. This is just the expression of irrational aggressiveness and feelings of superiority.
Don't forget that the whole thing is not about ruling its about making the right decisions. Have you seen "A beautiful mind"? The point which astonished me the most about this movie was the Nash equilibrium. This is not surpirsing since Nash was awarded the Nobel-prize for his finding. This mathematical model might be in part applicable to predict the possible outcome of any aspect of life where people strive for succes, though it might be sometimes difficult to define the exact rules of the game. If the US is not trying to coordinate their interests with the rest of the world to increase their domestic profit the rest of the world will do the same. As a result every member of the world will make less profit. This is because the US has the superiority but not supremacy in the world which means in other words it's the leader of the world but its still part of the world. If US makes the wrong decisions they might loose their superiority sooner than you expect. The rest of the world is not sleeping.
It is also wrong to say the US started form nothing 229 years ago. The US started as a colony of Europe with the crossing of the atlantic ocean by christopher columbus more than 500 years ago. 229 years ago , in 1776, was the declaration of independence when 13 colonies split from Britan. You can't really think that this is a start from nothing. This means the USA had an ahead start due to the transfer of know-how and human recources from Europe to the US. Until today the USA imports human recourses and know-how from all over the world which is good for the economic superiority of the USA. This inflow might cease if the USA favors "un-fair" play from now on. Moreover USA does not rule since 229 years but only since 10 or 20 years or so since the end of the cold war. This means the position of the USA today is the result of a lot of right decisions of the USA in the past 60 years or so. I hope the US keeps up the good work. Yet, if the US administration makes the wrong decisions, they might easily mess up the whole world. Smart politics made the US strong, not sledgehammer methods. If you are a leader, you will be more successful if you are supported by those you lead - E pluribus unum
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