America as a Teenager

In a world full of "adult" countries, however bipolar (United Kingdom), corrupt (North Korea), and miserly (Switzerland) they may be, there is one that stands out as being the common teenager - The United States of America. The US behaves as though it were an uncontrollable teen boy who entertains no notion of the existence of a frontal lobe, that underdeveloped part which is crucial in weighing decisions and their consequences. The hormonal problems and consistent rebellious nature of the teen is apparent in his decision-making which is characterized by bad choices, speaking without thinking, ineptitude stemming from a lack of discipline and a spoiled nature, and, overall, his unholy ego. If one were to have replaced the previous sentence's "teen" with "USA", it can most accurately be read the same and remain just as profound and sublime. Constant fighting, violence when forced to comply with others, and otherwise isolationist tendencies, preferring to be locked in his messy room instead of cleaning up and opening the door, seem to also shape what this teen [country] has become, of which the parents are not proud. His ego leads him to believe that he is capable of anything, needs no one else, and charges on whatever whim the next tram shuttles him to. His dabbling in drugs ("business" practices of Enron, Adelphia, etc.), backward practices such as the breaking of promises to his parents (the Patriot Act), and general feel that he is capable of anything by himself (the No Child Left Behind Act) engender this rage-driven entity named America. Unlike other child countries, America was born of a womb of malcontent and slaughter of thousands of indigenous peoples into a family of uncaring and irresponsible parenting, was raised on a milk formula accurately titled "Hypocrisy", and was continually suppressed into accepting the occupation title of "Head Fry-Wench" until he grew up to become a mass murderer out of cloudy hallucinogenic reasoning, refusing to apologize for known mistakes, and slowly killing himself in his old age through his old habits.

The Great Analogy

When one begins to delve into the interoperability of the Universe and everything in it, one can easily become lost, scared, and disillusioned when similarities between that which is gargantuan and that which is nothing more than minutia [mostly literally] are juxtaposed and studied from the keen eye of a craned and probing neck.

It is most interesting the seemingly-direct relationship and the similarities which it constitutes between the civilization which the human species has fabricated around itself, particularly the transportation infrastructure, and the human body itself. Let us develop and overexpose this fascinating smidgen of uncanniness.

If one were to step back, yes BACK, far back into the most desolate "corner" of the universe and, within the parameters that this is the only universe in existence (hence UNIverse), look forward (such a relative term is most necessary within normal communication), it is most probable that you would see an innumerable amount of galaxies and, within them, solar systems. Within these solar systems are planets rotating around a central star or stars, and on many of these planets are (without a 70th of an iota of a doubt) some type of form which goes about its own business, yet maintaining a certain harmony, just like everything else in the universe.

Now, step into our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and zoom in to planet Earth. Here, there exists the most sublime example of the smaller representing the larger on an incredibly accurate scale.

The human body is an enrapturing machine to peruse over, dissect, and stimulate for reaction, but its very workings are mirrored the Earth. Suppose that the Earth is an organism, as is a human, and that each of its continents are organs, that each of its tissues are countries, and all the way down to humans as cells, and then the entire layering process is repeated within the human body. But, lets continue the analogy of the Earth as an organism and humans, other animals, plants, and all of its other inhabitants as its cells.

The following will be in the form of unique written tangents which will, collectively, express loosely and, in a very scatterbrained fashion, my gist.

A human is born, cultured, learns to perform a task, performs this job for the bulk of its life, dies, and is replaced by another who does the same job, sometimes better, sometimes worse, and is sometimes replaced even if he is not yet deceased (becomes fired). If many unemployed individuals gather, they form a cancer, just like malignant cells.

From the house to work and back again, the human is mirrored as a cell in the arterial and vascular systems of the body. Small back roads upon which the human drives from the house are made akin to the smallest arteries, becoming bigger and bigger as he nears center city on a multi-lane highway to perform his job at a business like many of his other coworkers, although not exactly in the same way, and not exactly the same job, consumes energy, defecates, and travels back home via the same highway, only on the opposite side, in the venous system, back from whence it came. The department in which he works combines with others to form a company, which combine with other companies to form cities, which combine with other cities to create a country's economy, and these countries (organs, each of them unique in what they accomplish) then work together to create a balanced world economy - the organism.

Many cities have high unemployment rates, crime, and poverty - ever hear of cancer? Like the city of Detroit, a cancer can grow and mestasticize into a large edifice of infarct skin and a totaled economy.