@McGentrix,
Quote:...America. It's the best place in the world despite its flaws.
That notion could bear some quiet reflective thought.
Many New Yorkers such as Fran Lebowitz and Woody Allen, for example, deem NY the best city in America. Many Texans hold their state as the greatest state in the US. There are folks who live in Wyoming who prefer it to anywhere else except perhaps another locale where you can mistake your friend for a grouse and shoot him in the face and suffer no consequences - even embarrassment.
The French, many of them and for very fine reasons, would live nowhere else. Swiss, in large numbers, are happily ensconced amid their beautiful mountains and lakes and share the American tendency to see themselves as the thoroughbreds of humanity. And white South Africans, when they hear such self-evidently deluded claims from the Americans or Swiss, are so little troubled they don't get upset and spiteful in the slightest degree or treat their black help any worse than usual.
The whole God's Little Acre thing is a real estate con job we humans play on ourselves. And it's never true until we get to Heaven which, I gather, is like a really big cruise ship which is not permitted to dock anywhere under existing regulations.
