What is wrong with democracy- (the American democracy)?
There must be something wrong with American society. As serious as it may be, however, many Americans still seem confident their society will be fixed someday -- when someone, somewhere, makes a sincere and serious attempt to fix it. And the same confidence can also be found among people in other English-speaking countries who share a similar cultural heritage, and people in all societies where American attitudes and practices have become predominant.
So we wondered, expected to do from time to time, what might happen if we were to join a really sincere and really serious group of those broadly-defined Americans in making a serious attempt to solve social problems. And let's say we intended to prove our sincerity by avoiding the usual American practice of seeking a quick and easy fix, but choosing instead to take the time to learn what we would need to know in order to seriously attempt to improve any kind of society -- for our own benefit and for the edification of people in other countries as well.
We would probably begin by trying to understand just what, exactly, is wrong. And, because materialistic Americans tend to view their society as being something like a big machine, our investigation would probably begin like ones that are conducted in America when something goes wrong with other kinds of big, complex machines, such as the investigations that usually follow civil aviation disasters.
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