A Thought On What's Good About War And Poverty

A few days ago, my family was having a discussion at the dinner table on which country is the best one to live in. The general consensus was America, because we have a lot of freedom and we're comparatively economically stable. 

This was a bit of poop in my party, because I've always had the impression that other countries are better because the family unit is more secure and in poorer countries they don't rely so much on electronics and what-not, so that they have more time to spend with actual people. And maybe I'm wrong, but that's the impression I've always had. 

As much as I like watching movies and bumming around on Pinterest and Facebook, for a long time now a part of me has wished that I didn't have these things so that I would do more reading or chatting with people. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of very good things about electronics, it's just that at the moment, I'd rather enjoy the good things about not having them. 

One thing I don't like about America is that enough is never enough, at least the way I see it. We have freedom, but a lot of people go on about how we don't have enough freedom, and we need to be able to eat whatever we want without getting fat and have sex whenever we want without getting pregnant, both of which lead to all sorts of pills and what-not, which seems a bit unhealthy to me. Then there's that Lowe's commercial that always says, "Lowe's: never stop improving." If you never stop improving, when the hell are you going to be happy?

 In my opinion at least, freedom isn't necessarily such a great thing. I think it can make people stupid. And what's more, some of the best people in history come from times of conflict and oppression. All the best stories are about hard times and places where people's main goal is to live and be happy. A lot of people in America have all the freedoms they could want, and they're still not happy. 

The thing is, I think people are Knights In Shining Armor, and we need dragons to kill and princesses to save, otherwise we go kaput. People who live in impoverished or oppressed countries have their dragons, and their dragons have often brought out the best in them. In America I think, our dragons are more subtle and conniving and difficult to see. That's all I got to say about that.