They cannot be unworthy, because they should be ashamed...

Nice sometimes to read what you think, said in a much better way by somebody else, in this case Jim Kunstler.

Nevertheless, I have something to add on this passage:

" The tragic part of all this is that we (Americans) have become such a foolish and craven people, so lost in our endless victory laps, incessant self-awards, and failures of attention, that we will deserve everything that reality throws at us. We are past the point of being unworthy of our own history, so maybe we ought to stop pretending to celebrate it. "

This, as he says, "new religion" is common to the Europeans too, as well as the false assumption that we deserve the lifestyle we have, not aknowledging the fact that we, 2% of the world's population, consume 80% of the resources.

But when he talks about hystory, and I can say this, because I am European and the Americans of today are the Europeans of yesterday, let's drop a pious curtain on it.

The Americans cannot be unworthy of their hystory, if we consider hystory the complete massacre of the people who lived in America BEFORE the Americans of today (the Europeans of yesterday).

They cannot be unworthy of a country which was built on the blood of peaceful people. They cannot be unworthy, because they should be ashamed...