Are Americans Psychopaths?
What Else Explains America’s Bizarre, Shocking Indifference to Everything That Matters?
Here’s a tiny fact. 300,000 Americans are dead of a preventable lethal illness. That’s more people than died during World War II — in less time. And still, there are even more, millions of Americans, who don’t appear to care. America is hardly a society pulling together like during a war, to fight a common enemy.
But rewind, even, to a time before Covid. If you’ve read my other articles, you know I often say “Americans make their kids do active shooter drills, just so they can carry their guns to Starbucks.” Well, there it is, in the picture above. Gun owners actually organized a “Take Your Gun to Starbucks Day.”
I bring all of that up because there’s a difficult question that needs to be asked these days, and you’re probably — understandably — not going to like it. So let me begin by trying to avoid asking it, because, well, it’s pretty rude.
When the world looks at Americans, it sees people who are really, really different. Weird. Strange. Not right. Something, the world thinks, went badly wrong with these people. Americans creep the entire world out by now, make it shudder, give it the chills. The world knows that there is nobody — and I mean nobody — else in it quite like them. I don’t mean that in a good way. It’s important to say that I’m not being negative — I’m just making a set of observations.
Americans are renowned the entire world over by now for what can only be described as incredible levels of cruelty, brutality, violence, stupidity, and indifference. Again — that’s just an observation, not my opinion. If you don’t believe me, ask your friends. Go from one corner to the other of the globe, and you will hear much the same perspective, whether it’s in France, Canada, China, or Chile. Americans tend to be seen as bullies and fanatics and maniacs. They are laughingstocks now because they have made fools of themselves. They have too many guns and don’t read enough books. They don’t seem to care about anything but money, power, sex, and fame. Certainly not the world, certainly not anything that matters, like science, literature, art, love, truth, beauty, goodness…not even each other, and by now, not even themselves…
