America is really good on recreation. Citizens can move around as we see fit and the national park system is very good. Someone said we make good games, and that's true. It's the wastefulness I don't like. Like Hunter S. Thompson said, "Americans drive themselves to death in huge, gas guzzling cars."
I think if most Americans wouldn't be so greedy and wouldn't so lovingly embrace the consumerist lifestyle, the rest of the planet would think more of us. And our military actions are usually trying to stop oppression, but it is done through oppressing others. I think that is why we are seen as meddlesome.
But the thing I like most about America is our version of English. American English is a very expressive language where you can use passive language and still make a valid point forcefully (even though I don't do that ...). I've spent my life in front of keyboard, typewriter or pen and pad writing in this variant of English, so it would be very hard for me to write the way I do in another language.
Now, reading this compared to my above posts, I have to say this: NASA dropped the ball on space exploration, but it was privatized and commercialized which I said will save it. So that American greed I so loath will fuel space travel, which I am all about. Kind of a double edged sword, huh? Any country on this planet has good and bad, just like every race of human has both. I just think it's time to reel it in and strive for balance instead of more more more.
