No More Superpowers

    Our young country has some maturing to do. Freedom of speech, representative government, individual liberty, they all sound great to us. So great that we often feel that we should go around the world killing people (long term damage of their individual freedom) in order to "free them".

    I often think about our status as superpower and I have decided it's unnecessary. We can leave the world alone. Let's say we invade China and we free the hell out of their people! YEAH! Now they have a destroyed economy with a destroyed infrastructure! Do we know for certain that they share our Western culture? Our love of individual freedom? If we can't assume that our neighbor watches the same movies as us, what makes us think we can assume that another culture shares our values? What a superpower does is it uses its incredible influence to make the world as close to it as possible. Why do we need that? Wouldn't multiculturalism (one of the many and changing keystones of our country) be a better model for the world?

     Often times, crime is used as our basis for insulting the sovereignty of other cultures. In the States, the age of consent is usually 16 years old, but it does go up to 18 in some states, we have decided therefore, that the rest of the world should follow suit. We in the West have decided that all countries must raise the age of consent to stop sex tourism, even though those countries were obviously okay with it or else they would have raised it themselves. Some people might disagree with me on whether or not that is wrong, but what about this one. Some countries have very low tax rates because they have very small governments. They boost their economy by encouraging corporations to set up shop in their country, but OH the West will have none of that, because the corporations will be leaving Western nations, and we just love to tax the bejeesus out of them. So, obviously, we blacklist all the countries below a certain tax rate as tax evasion isolationist nations.

Of course! Do whatever you like, it's your country... unless we don't like it, obviously.

     Well I say let the Dutch be Dutch, let them ride their bikes even if the federal congress decides to outlaw bicycles.
     Let Iraq be Iraq, let China be China.

We don't need to tell people what to do. Would it really be so bad if we had a world without a bully telling everyone what to do?