The US IS the greatest country in the world (* AT salesmanship *). That about sums up the concept of "The American Dream" for me.. their government is extraordi

The US IS the greatest country in the world (* AT salesmanship *). That about sums up the concept of "The American Dream" for me.. their government is extraordinarily good at selling certain worldviews & suppressing others, both to their own citizens and to the world. Turns out that salesmanship, psychological influence & media control is a pretty powerful combination. They even routinely manage to sell invading & plundering other nations as "defense". Its a brilliant idea to sell to your citizens as a nation or industrial tycoon... that "we are the greatest because of hard work, hard work implies success, and success implies hard work", and then watch your citizens/employees define themselves by work so that the nation/corporation gets wealthier and more powerful. All the while common sense (or statistics) will tell you that money begets money & power begets power, the rich get richer and the poor usually stay poor. Unfortunately the American Dream idea is not always good for the workers themselves but the people selling the idea were not too concerned about that :) They simply sell just enough mental health care to keep you productive but docile on the side!