STEM 7 - Eh...

Too nationalistic for my taste!

I don't lose much sleep over America losing its place as "[the] engine of scientific discovery and scientific innovation." Yes, America has been an inspired catalyst, especially in the 20th century. However, progress is progress, despite its origins. Seriously, if one cares about progress, he or she should congratulate his or her global brother or sister on a job well done; it's not like we do too often.

American inventors! American ingenuity! why not human inventors and primate ingenuity? (Shout out to my brothers in the wild and civilization!)

Confining oneself to a nationality is outright boring, outright boring! Living in America and exclaiming you're an American is redundant. Expressing one's pride of the incident, even more so.

Don't get me wrong, I know America has potential for a quality of life higher than any other country's, which is pretty cool. In fact, I probably wouldn't want to live anywhere else. It's just... chill out about it, ok? Intense "patriotic" fervor is what causes animosity on the global front. Imagine a Frenchman yelling France is the best country on Earth, thus saying America is not. (One probably has! [The English language is so fun, figure the double context interpretation of the note out!]) Does that infuriate you? Well, I place no blame if it does. (I've found indifference is happiness's contemporary; competition is pointless, dominance over other men is a slavery. I'm not much for any kind of slavery.)

Anyway, do your best America! Do your best! (Also, don't recognize me as an iconoclast, some furious inciter or an especially liberal fellow. [Apolitical usually!] This isn't a sad attempt at revolution, this isn't a brutal critique of behaviour. It's simply one guy telling a lot of guys to calm down already.)

(None of this had anything to do with the topic, sorry. Granted, the topic was probably an attempt at getting EVERYONE up and doing something innovative; I just don't like the nationalistic shroud and prefer to point that out, as I only talk about things I don't care for.)