Twenty-four percent of Amerikans know three judges of "American Idol" by name, but only eight percent know three things from the First Amendment, according to a survey of 1000 people by the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum. Meanwhile, the National Organization for Women (NOW) is busy helping Iraq construct its constitution colonial style. Perhaps NOW should focus more on how romance culture and its popularity totally saps people's brains in the united $tates. Then people would know their own constitution and amendments instead of writing Iraq's. Maybe also, if NOW had spent time attacking the props of patriarchy, the Patriot Act would not have just passed into law again.

This concerns a serious problem of nationalism. The pseudo-feminists would rather be an in-house critic of colonialism, advising Bush how to do a better job oppressing Iraq than to look at how patriarchy retards political development. MIM does not believe this is a coincidence.

The plunder of the world is what makes the leisure time culture possible in countries like the united $tates. It's the reason that no one cares about the First Amendment while American Idol judges are to be worshipped. The ability to live a life in fantasy love of Clay Aiken or Kelly Clarkson is a gender privilege that NOW currently accepts.

Some will say that the results of this survey prove that Amerikans are "stupid." Depending on the context, MIM may agree, but the important thing is that it's a willful stupidity. That's why it's important to have a point of comparison.

It's not that Amerikans have especially bad memory. They can remember the American Idol judges. Stupidity in that regard is not the problem. Likewise, when it comes to sports statistics, Amerikans can be pretty impressive.

The problem is not the stupidity that every country has. The problem is motivation. If we take two kids who might get a driver's license, one may be a hereditary multi-millionaire with a chauffer. The other may be a recent migrant farm worker. If we ask these two kids about the rules of the road, we may get some terrible answers. If the farm worker is illiterate, she may not be able to pass the driver's test at all to get a U.S. license.

The crucial difference is this: the multi-millionaire does not know the rules of driving or how to read a road map, because he will always be chauffered and he does not care. The farm worker will learn how to read if she has to learn how to drive and get a license.

To understand the difference between being an in-house advisor of colonialism and patriarchy and implementing change, we have to know the social forces involved. If we bank on the chauffered kid to know the rules of the road, we shoot ourselves in the foot.

NOW does not have a good idea of what is propping up patriarchy and what social forces can take it down. That's why its press releases make no mention of U.$. soldiers and their characteristics, Lynndie England in Abu Ghraib being the real indicator of what NOW needs to know. Lynndie England is the chauffered kid. She does not have it in her to bring change to Iraq's patriarchy. Quite the opposite, she reinforces it with a vengeance. Real feminism has to attack the group interests of conservative social groups. Amerikan females as a whole are conservative via the patriarchy, because they have gender privileges that NOW has not yet begun to attack. The reason NOW is silent on those privileges is that NOW itself is conservative.

Source:
http://www.mccormicktribune.org/mtf/pressroom/2006/Survey_Results_Report.pdf
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_ColumnistArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137834589896&path=!living&s=1037645509005
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