People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
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When people feel threatened by you, they find something that is belittling.
When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent.
People can be really mean - they say the most vicious things.
America is just downright mean.
We can't stop talking about the importance of our values and our culture. We can't stop talking about them because the moral well-being of our people is directly linked to their economic well-being.
When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.
As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.
Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.
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