[UA] American attitudes and things

[corey liss]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:45:34PM -0800, Aaron Harmon wrote:
> American things.
> You find the American flag flown all over the place. Many homes, businesses,
> and even some cars fly the flag. Lots of people own guns, not that they are
> walking the streets stalking people, but many homes (about 40%) have
> firearms. Mostly rifles, then shotguns, then handguns. The cowboy types
> generally are conservative and pro-gun ownership, and there are a lot of
> Americans that consider ANY gun law to be the beginnings of an attempt by
> the government to disarm the populace before instating a totalitarian
> regime. 

There's another interesting contradiction here.  Since conservatives are
also, generally, more opposed to anything that smacks of "welfare state"
and more in favor of harsh laws that have the greatest impact on the poor,
it can be said that they favor -- even encourage -- oppressing the poor.

At the same time, they favor allowing the "oppressed masses" access to
semiautomatic weapons.  So, basically, our conservative would-be demagogues
are the stupidest ever, right up there with the ones who don't pay their
mercenary armies.  :)

There's an adept form in there someplace, related to the Demagogue
archetype...  The person who gets charges by acting in a negative way
towards individuals or groups, while giving them all the tools and reasons
they need to oppose him, and gets away with it.  


-Corey



These folks are also generally against anything that even appears to
> be European, from cars to political ideas (they often equate Europe with
> communism). Many other people own guns for self-defense purposes. The
> organization most well known for supporting the freedom to own guns is the
> NRA (National rifleman's association, you see bumper stickers all over the
> place). As an idea, the NRA is against any law which requires guns to be
> locked away where children cannot reach them. Not that they want kids to
> have guns, they just oppose the government mandate. The NRA actually
> supports the PRACTICE of locking guns away from children, but opposes any
> LAW requiring it.
> Actually that is a common American attitude, which I think you could add to
> bring realism to the game. Americans are generally very caring people who
> want to do the right thing, we just hate being TOLD to do the right
> thing. We are very distrustful of authority.
> We also worship the soldiers in the military with almost religious fervor. I
> think it is a throwback to the disgusting way many Vietnam vets were treated
> when they came come, so we have gone 180 degrees the other way.
> You will also almost never find someone to disagree with the statement "The
> United States is the best/greatest country in the world." We beleive that we
> have perfected goverment by inventing democracy. We believe the rest of the
> world is mostly useful only as a tourist destination, and have trouble
> understand why foreigners might dislike us.

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