Imagine the world today without America

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Imagine the world today without America

Lee — 9/8/2003 1:42:35 AM (archived)

I say that the world we know today is here because of America. Make a list of the technologies and innovations produced by America over the past 100+ years, now imagine a world without them. The world today is a reflection of America. Murky and distorted at times, but still a reflection.

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It takes a world to build a nation - Don - 9/7/2003 3:27:31 PM
- 21 and counting - brian - 11/13/2003 11:32:39 PM
  - re: 21 and counting - Tom Brosz - 11/14/2003 12:49:29 AM
    - re: 21 and counting - brian - 11/14/2003 11:09:40 PM
- re: . . . but only a nation to build a world . . . - D. Spires - 9/7/2003 6:09:51 PM
  - americaforming - Robert - 9/7/2003 10:29:21 PM
    - Humble? - FrankC (ugly american) - 9/8/2003 7:15:52 PM
      - I like it - Robert - 9/8/2003 7:54:46 PM
    - re: *we* - Marcia - 9/8/2003 2:30:21 PM
      - Certainly - Robert - 9/8/2003 2:47:16 PM
        
        re: Certainly, but what of *them*, *others*? - Marcia - 9/8/2003 3:20:22 PM
        
        The high road - Robert - 9/8/2003 3:40:21 PM
    - Imagine the world today without America - Lee - 9/8/2003 1:42:35 AM
      - A shining city on the hill - Robert - 9/8/2003 2:40:37 AM
        
        Bending other states to their will - Tom Brosz - 9/8/2003 4:38:28 AM
        
        re: Bending other states to their will - Robert - 9/8/2003 2:58:42 PM
        
        "Spreading democracy by gunpoint." - Tom Brosz - 9/8/2003 4:36:27 AM
        
        Spreading ideology at gunpoint - Robert - 9/8/2003 2:54:51 PM
        
        re: Spreading ideology at gunpoint - Tom Brosz - 9/8/2003 11:20:33 PM
        
        You're being obtuse again - Robert - 9/9/2003 12:17:17 AM
        
        re: You're being obtuse again - gbaikie - 9/9/2003 4:36:08 AM
        
        Definitions - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2003 3:58:29 AM
        
        Literacy and Rand - Davin L. - 9/9/2003 3:22:17 PM
        
        John Galt - Greg - 9/11/2003 10:23:31 AM
        
        terrorism and what it means - brian - 11/14/2003 11:19:06 PM
        
        re: John Galt - Alisa - 10/1/2003 6:57:43 AM
        
        re: John Galt - Greg - 10/1/2003 10:49:10 AM
        
        re: John Galt - Alisa - 10/2/2003 1:15:38 AM
        
        re: John Galt - Greg - 10/2/2003 3:42:37 AM
        
        re: John Galt - Tom Brosz - 10/2/2003 2:46:02 PM
        
        re: John Galt - Alisa - 10/2/2003 6:24:50 AM
        
        re: John Galt - Greg - 10/2/2003 7:30:31 AM
        
        re: John Galt - Alisa - 10/3/2003 9:07:39 PM
        
        re: John Galt - Greg - 10/5/2003 8:59:03 AM
        
        looks like someone is going to try it - Greg - 10/2/2003 4:10:50 AM
        
        re: John Galt - Tom Brosz - 10/1/2003 5:54:25 PM
        
        re: John Galt - Greg - 10/2/2003 3:51:30 AM
        
        "Why don't individualists go out and form a commune?" - Tom Brosz - 10/2/2003 2:49:53 PM
        
        re: Loghorrea and Rand - Tom Brosz - 9/9/2003 6:15:20 PM
        
        re: Loghorrea and Rand - Deborah Robb - 12/14/2003 10:45:04 AM
        
        Yer missing my points here Tom - Davin L. - 9/9/2003 7:58:26 PM
        
        re: Yer missing my points here Tom - gbaikie - 9/10/2003 3:38:15 AM
        
        re: Yer missing my points here Tom - Davin L. - 9/10/2003 12:19:05 PM
        
        re: Yer missing my points here Tom - gbaike - 9/11/2003 12:45:44 AM
        
        re: Yer missing my points here Tom - Davin L. - 9/11/2003 1:12:59 AM
        
        re: Yer missing my points here Tom - gbaikie - 9/11/2003 8:46:42 AM
        
        You had some? - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2003 3:35:34 AM
        
        And there wasn't nothin' Nietzsche couldn't teachya 'bout the raising of the wrist - Davin l. - 9/10/2003 1:27:33 PM
        
        Another one - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2003 11:58:34 PM
        
        re: Another one - Davin L. - 9/11/2003 12:54:33 AM
        
        re: Another one - gbaikie - 9/11/2003 2:51:15 AM
        
        Cute tripe, Tom - Davin L. - 9/10/2003 1:17:26 PM
        
        Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table - Tony - 9/10/2003 12:54:43 PM
        
        Plato they say, could pack it away, half a crate of whisky every day - Davin L. - 9/10/2003 1:19:12 PM
        
        Ayn Rand, Ayn Rand drank vodka like a man...... (n/t) - Tony - 9/10/2003 4:16:09 PM
        
        Rene Descartes was a drunken fart- I drink therefore I am!!! - Davin L. - 9/10/2003 5:27:18 PM
        
        There are few things in life I have memorized - Tony - 9/10/2003 6:49:40 PM
        
        Are you guys having fun or are you just trying to set a record for the furthest to the right thread? I wonder if words will be hyphenated? (n/t) - Irony - 9/10/2003 9:49:52 PM
        
        Nope, it just edges further right (n/t) - Irony - 9/10/2003 9:51:22 PM
        
        Damn, as always, I was trying to edge the thread further left (n/t) - Tony - 9/11/2003 5:41:44 PM
        
        re: You're being obtuse again - Davin L. - 9/9/2003 12:31:07 AM
    - re: Humility is a might hard to come by . . . - D. Spires - 9/8/2003 1:33:49 AM
      - re: Canada - Raoul - 9/8/2003 5:42:01 AM
        
        re: Canada: I second that motion - Johannes - 9/8/2003 6:07:15 AM
        
        re: Canada: I second that motion - LJ - 9/8/2003 4:02:42 PM
      - re: Humility is a might hard to come by . . . - Robert - 9/8/2003 2:54:37 AM
        
        re: Changing . . . - D. Spires - 9/8/2003 5:56:32 PM
  - two outa three :-) - McFly - 9/7/2003 7:45:34 PM

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