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[andrewducker]

This is fantastic.

Some snippets from the worldview it describes.

Complicated explanations are suspect
The world is simple, and there must be a simple explanation for everything

If it's good for you, it's good
Society is everyone else.

You're special
Bad things shouldn't happen to you.

Certainty is strength, doubt is weakness
Admitting alternatives is undermining one's own belief.
Changing one's mind means one has wasted the time spent holding the prior opinion.

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No - America is an American teenager...

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

I often allow myself to ponder the idea that countries go through similar life stages to people. It explains a lot. In this view, we Americans are the teenagers of the world and Britain--having been the most recent empire before ours--is like our older streetwise buddy and is allowing us to be the aggressors so they can get back in the game...
Meanwhile France (having long suffered wounds where the remains of its empire left) and Germany (having painfully failed to achieve empire twice in a century) have retired from the game to smoke cigarettes and wax philosophical while watching us make the same mistakes they did, occasionally telling us we're being dicks when we ask.

OK, so I didn't say it was a good theiry...