America has culturally valued expedience and individualism over sustainability and, even more so, collectivism - at least in popular sentiment.
After around two centuries of development, in 2015, the social and legal evolution of these ideas based on 'individual freedom and liberty' (the land of the free and the home of the brave) has included a variety of unforeseen effects which unfortunately include the US being one of the most thoroughly surveilled and legislated (least free), and most incarcerated peoples on the planet.
Citizen-on-citizen gun crime is among the worst on the planet, education and (particularly) health outcomes are trending in negative directions faster than most OECD contemporaries and possibly most significantly, ''conservatives'', who apparently make up nearly 50% of the population will tolerate all of the above, and even encourage a political leadership who are so far removed from reality they make the Ayatollahs look rational.
Further, a significant and unfortunately powerful minority even believe (or act like) releasing billions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere is not causing the climate to change - possibly the greatest existential threat to humanity any thousands of other species - and are resisting all sensible mitigation efforts by the world community.
What the fuck is happening guys?
After around two centuries of development, in 2015, the social and legal evolution of these ideas based on 'individual freedom and liberty' (the land of the free and the home of the brave) has included a variety of unforeseen effects which unfortunately include the US being one of the most thoroughly surveilled and legislated (least free), and most incarcerated peoples on the planet.
Citizen-on-citizen gun crime is among the worst on the planet, education and (particularly) health outcomes are trending in negative directions faster than most OECD contemporaries and possibly most significantly, ''conservatives'', who apparently make up nearly 50% of the population will tolerate all of the above, and even encourage a political leadership who are so far removed from reality they make the Ayatollahs look rational.
Further, a significant and unfortunately powerful minority even believe (or act like) releasing billions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere is not causing the climate to change - possibly the greatest existential threat to humanity any thousands of other species - and are resisting all sensible mitigation efforts by the world community.
What the fuck is happening guys?