Written by: Goemagog

France sucks. This is not an original or insightful comment, everybody who pays attention to what happens in the world knows it. When Beck sent me this link, I was not suprised. I had nothing to say about it that I hadn't said before.

It's not that the french are just cowardly weasels trying to preemptively surrender, the french suck because they want to. They want to be everything that America isn't. America is free, so France isn't. America is prosperous, so France isn't. America tries to stop genocidal dictators, so the French help them. There's really only so much ranting one can do about the cesspit that is France, so I didn't say anything until now, when I felt like ranting a bit.

The French do this to themselves because they think we're evil. Why do they think we're evil? Because we're not France. It's stupid, but what do you expect from France.

It'd be nice to say "Fuck France" and let them dissolve into the genocidal orgy that they so desperately try to encourage elsewhere, but the problem is bigger than just France. A lot of countries are embracing suicidal policies just to be different.

Americans like happy endings, so hollywood gives them to us. Most of the world thinks we live in some sort of stupor, ignorant of everything that isn't bright and cheerful. They see our films, they watch our tv shows, it should be fairly apparent that America is not Disneyland writ large, but that's precisely what they think it is. They get pissed at us because they don't get to live in fairy-tale land. France, amongst others, encourages the world to blame us for their not living in a make-believe world.

They're just not rational human beings. Most of the world lacks a firm grasp of what is and isn't real and in their delusional state think that the reason they can't enjoy the perks of fantasyland is because the CIA is trying to keep the riff-raff out of the magic Republic. That's why so many are eager to believe conspiracy theories about Americans being responsible for anything bad.

No matter what happens in Africa, everyone blames us for being involved too much or too little. Massacres occur under the noses of French peacekeepers, but it's our fault for not stopping it. The UN asked for our help in Somalia, so it's our fault some of the locals felt violently about it. We get sued because there's a tidal wave in an ocean on the other side of the planet that we didn't warn the locals about.

It's not rational thinking, but it's what the world does. It might help a bit of our own politicians didn't encourage other countries to hate us by playing along with foreign delusions, but that's just way too much to hope for. I believe the world can be a much nicer place than it is, but it will never be a better place if the planet's collective consciousness says that race riots are preferable to Enron.

What can we do about it? There's only so many times you can tell someone not to jump in the fire if they really want to. There's only so many times you can point out that socialist governments have a really poor track record if people want to elect one. If the french want to encourage tyranny and repression, there's only so much we can do to stop them. There's nothing we can do if our own leaders are complicit. There's only so much time you can spend wondering why this penguin isn't covered in blue mud.

Goe, because it's us against the world and none of our political parties are on our side.