| The Ghost of RubangB said: I think the point is that America lets immigrants bring other cultures into our melting pot of diversity, but outside of that, we don't really look to other countries at all. I know soooo many people who hate foreign films because they can't stand subtitles. It's stupid shit like that that makes me think Americans are culturally insulated and retarded. |
Rubang knows what I am getting at.
Another good example is looking at foreign law. Many of our Supreme Court justices refuse to do so even though it has been common practice throughout US history. I am not suggesting we look at foreign laws as binding on what we do, but they are still a persuasive authority that we should at least consider. Some countries have it within their Constitution that they must look at foreign laws.
Foreign countries used to cite our Supreme Court extremely frequently as one of the most important legal sources in the world. Our law in many ways was a major "export." However, the EU has passed us in terms of worldwide legal influence because we have become increasingly insular.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
