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    But the USA.... What will its empire be famous for? I don't think hamburgers and expensive lattes will go down to posterity! Or perhaps it'll just go down as the short-lived empire that spread the values of junk culture, depleted morals, radical capitalism and the pursuit of money and corporate profits at any cost.
    I really can’t comprehend the core nature of your perpetual complains about the USA, given your protestant background and degree in politics. It was Max Weber who first pinpointed that

    According to the new Protestant religions, an individual was religiously compelled to follow a secular vocation with as much zeal as possible. A person living according to this world view was more likely to accumulate money.
    The new religions (in particular, Calvinism and other more austere Protestant sects) effectively forbade wastefully using hard earned money and identified the purchase of luxuries as a sin. Donations to an individual's church or congregation were limited due to the rejection by certain Protestant sects of icons. Finally, donation of money to the poor or to charity was generally frowned on as it was seen as furthering beggary. This social condition was perceived as laziness, burdening their fellow man, and an affront to God; by not working, one failed to glorify God.

    The manner in which this paradox was resolved, Weber argued, was the investment of this money, which gave an extreme boost to nascent capitalism.
    The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    So, God helps the Americans to endure sufferings of the material existence with less severity and punishes sinners, especially atheistic communists for their heresies.

    According to the Providence, North Korea is left so far on the political arena with the only purpose to show what might happen to everyone should your keep on pursuing false believes )).

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    Quote Originally Posted by diogen_ View Post
    I really can’t comprehend the core nature of your perpetual complains about the USA, given your protestant background and degree in politics.
    Знаете, у нас на Западе (в том числе Швеции), публичное самобичевание -- это очень древнее извращение, которым многие люди занимаются и до сих пор -- только чаще всего не в дословном, физическом смысле.



    И некоторые люди испытывают чувства вины и стыда из-за того, что они пользуются плодами и преимущества западного капитализма, пока в Африке, дети умирают от голода, и т.д.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
    ...пользуются плодами и преимущества западного капитализма, пока в Африке, дети умирают от голода, и т.д.
    ...и преимуществами... , в то время как дети... и т.д. ( Перед и т.д. не нужно запятой. Она нужна в перечислении: и т.д., и т.п. )
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    Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
    Знаете, у нас на Западе (в том числе Швеции), публичное самобичевание -- это очень древнее извращение, которым многие люди занимаются и до сих пор -- только чаще всего не в дословном, физическом смысле.



    И некоторые люди испытывают чувства вины и стыда из-за того, что они пользуются плодами и преимущества западного капитализма, пока в Африке, дети умирают от голода, и т.д.
    Но при этом не спешат стать волонтерами в Африке, чтобы помогать тем детям. Я бы сказал, только делая себе плохо, ты не делаешь хорошо никому.

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