Suntzu wrote:When the Europeans arrived in the New World they found stone age savages, no metal tools, no beast of burden, no written language, practicing cannibalism on a grand scale. We started a relationship by trading, they gave us syphilis, we gave them smallpox.
SUPERAmerican children spend hours and hours of their free time watching superheroes do physically and mentally challenging things... while they themselves sit perfectly still on carpet or a bed watching and waiting for sugary treats. Super-american kids often grow up to an adult routine of using super-software at their super-cubicles, motionlessly succumbing to premature
secretary spread.Young kids are amazed by Superman flying to other planets, Spiderman swinging from super-webs, and Batman climbing walls, while they - the super-american kids - can't even cross the street safely (because of super-cars) or walk to child-centered activities (they need a drive in one of the cars that makes their environment too dangerous to walk or cycle).
All the TV-watching and social isolation leads to ADD, which makes these super-narrative-consumers anything but super-students or super-wise.
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American adults watch their TVs powefully as their superpower nation destroyes yet another much smaller nation somewhere on the globe where there are super-resources for their super-cars.
And when you see the citizens of the superpower at their supercenter malls, they don't look much like Superman or Wonder Woman. No, the supernational companies that feed and transport Americans have made the citizens look far more like Wall-E than Spiderman.
Also, for
super, see: Exceptional, Limited Edition, Director's cut, Walk on Water, Part the Red Sea, and Make the Desert Bloom, Come on Lucky Seven!, etc.
A senior investment banker dressed up as a superhero