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If all you hear all the time is that yours is the greatest country on earth, even if it was true at one point, before long it will cease to be true. Same goes f
by avidphantasm 3y ago
If all you hear all the time is that yours is the greatest country on earth, even if it was true at one point, before long it will cease to be true. Same goes for people.
- throwaway894345 3y agoHonestly I kind of think there’s a feedback loop working in the other direction. If you believe that you are capable, you’re more likely to try new things and if you’re really lucky, you fail a lot and learn a ton, which incidentally makes you more capable than you would be if you had a small worldview. Maybe that sort of positivity at the scale of an entire society has made America a greater country than it would have been if Americans were as pessimistic as their critics (both foreign and native) try to make them feel?