A Challenge to e-American Culture

Day 2,548, 18:51 • Published in USA USA • by J.A. Lake
A Challenge to e-American Culture

Hello, Comrades!

It's apparent a malaise has set upon e-America, while it's source is open to speculation its result can not be dispute😛 boredom, inactivity, and sameness.

A symptom of this is the pathetic debate over the New Citizen Message, and what it has revealed to us.

First and foremost, it reveals to us that Congress is full of tired trolls that can find enjoyment only in creating a crisis from nothing. This is itself symptomatic of the insular approach the eUS takes to domestic politics.

Secondly we find trouble in the complete lack of problem-solving skills present both in the Executive and Congress.

The solution is so simple as not putting the CP's name on the message. Then it never has to be changed, unless something comes up during the development of the game.

As soon as the issue was broached a series of new ideas was put forward by various Congressmen, and all such ideas were shot down in order to keep the NCM the same-- the very same NCM that parts of Congress wanted to change!

"What a tangled web we weave!"

So we have it that Congress has laid bare a major problem facing our country. The "follow-the-leader" mentality we have here is staggeringly powerful.

There are historical explanations for this, insofar as unity was necessary in the past to prevent political take-overs by everyone from Serbians to certifiably insane members of the eUS community.

This is an asset that served us well in the past, but over time this vigilance calcified into a system of sacrificing free thought and outside the box thinking in favor of always maintaining the status quo, no matter what. Even now, as threats are no where near as potent as before, the rigid system of obedience to "national security" above all is reflected in campaign slogans that read, "Save America, vote X!" or "Vote for Freedom, vote Y!", or even the always-popular "Country > Self."

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

I put forward, what cause is there to safeguard a country if you have to fight to have your voice heard? Why vote for "freedom" if that freedom is sacrificed immediately if national security is threatened?

Furthermore, I submit that the idea of "national security" is farcical in nature and leaves e-Americans highly vulnerable both to false flags and false appeals to nationalism. These vulnerabilities make the People far too easy to manipulate for any number of purposes- not the least of which is the preservation of the current oligarchy.

Truly, what cause do any of us have to protect a country that we only contribute money to? As it is being run, the "country" is a parasite that siphons off money and resists any change in the name of some vaguely-defined notion of security built for an age long passed.

Perhaps it should be Party > Self > Country. Parties could be the chief organizational tool within the e-USA, not merely a stopper that keeps the undesired out of national institutions like Congress. Indeed, the vagaries that infect the real concept of nationalism are only amplified here. Where in the real world, you are more or less territorially locked to one location without a long moving process; here, I can move from New Jersey to Berlin to Cairo to Paris to London to Bangkok to Moscow to Stockholm and back to New Jersey in under 10 minutes. There's no territorial bond here, except for those we force into existence. Nationalism is invalid! Country rightfully belongs on the bottom of any chain of importance.

Ideological stagnation and groupthink are the problems we must address, and the best way forward is the increasing the power of Parties to eclipse that of the aging institutions of the Executive and Congress. Allow Parties to grow their own ideologies and for legitimate political discourse to evolve between them as a result.

Given freedom, people will think of different approaches to different problems. Tired trolls and relics of the past will not have room in this new political landscape of the future, not unless we let them.

With that parting thought, I shall see you in the comments, comrades!