The United States of America

I have never been the US, but like many of us, I understand the US from the news, music, its movies and the books that it produces. But based what I see, I believed that the US is a bipolar country and therefore cannot be seen as a singular monolithic entity. It must be seen in it's aggregate and not be seen in individual people or events.

It is at the same time one of most free country in the world but yet it is also the most divisive country of the world. They can and have people who will fight for the rights of disenfranchised and the have-nots but also have people who the most polarizing, discriminating people- a good example being one of it's Presidential candidate: Donald Trump.

I have written about this before in previous post. But if you view it from the dialectical materialism perspective, you will realise that US is the archetypal case of a conflict of the thesis and the anti-thesis to produce a "better" or "higher" state called the synthesis. It produces a societal state which brings it to a higher plane through the confluence and conflict of forces: it brings society and it's people to a level that it is not necessarily seen before if it was harmonious and homogenous.

The problem with such a state is that it is not necessarily beneficial to a large masses of people who are unable to absorb the counteracting forces but rather for a small elite group of people who are able to harness the tension in the society to produce a level that is not possible should they only meet people that are like-minded and not necessarily diverse.

It is precisely because of this that the US produced the technological advanced machines and have the capability to be the most compassionate people but yet remain the xenophobic people- so afraid of change and diversity.

This state of situation only benefits people on the aggregate but for people on the ground, life might proved to be difficult for them.

A lot of other nations benefit from the experiment it does with it's people, from the higher technology and its selfless-ness quality but it's people on the other hand have to guard against attacks on their values from all directions. Precisely because of the diversity of values and interests that exist in American society, people will often encounter situations where things they hold dear is constantly under attack from people whom they deemed as "bad" or "evil". And because the American constitution guarantees a lot of these freedoms, they cannot seek solace in the governments stands against certain "counter-culture" acts. They find a certain leadership lacking in society.

As a result of these assault of the senses on its people, it produces strong and passionate people who have to withstand forces from all directions, which sometimes can lead to self-destruction, which is evidenced by the shootings by various interests groups on the "others"; but they also produce extremely steely characters who emerged as personalities who can lead it people to battle against other "evil" groups: Martin Luther King for example.

The people it produces are by far one of the strongest that the world has seen but it is also a society that can be wrecked by internal strife and conflict. But they always emerged the better from it and that is the American way of doing things. They go where no one dares to go and brings the world to a level not seen before in other countries.