American exceptionalism ... myth, dead, alive ...

[Darren]

It's Howdy Doody time, inmates. I offer for your continued awe, shock, discomfort or education another poll. There are no correct answers from my pov and it's open book.

[Crackpot]

What if they held a poll and nobody came?

[Darren]

What if they held a poll and nobody came?

That's the beauty of it. Does the horse drink when he drowns?

[dales]

[yawn]

[RayThom]

Darren, many years ago it was a certain group of people who were labeled with the term exceptionalism. Today they are all mainstreamed and, subsequently, that term has mostly disappeared.

Maybe you should rephrase the quiz.

[MajGenl.Meade]

There are no correct answers from my pov

No remotely interesting ones either

[Darren]

There are no correct answers from my pov

No remotely interesting ones either

That's understandable. Most subjects never see the behind the scenes stuff.

I've gotten a look at reality four times.

One was during a meeting when my supervisor was threatened. Normally you never seen the iron fist. She was a Black electrical engineer which was a prize for a "look at us we support diversity" corporation. The whites of her eyes would have lit up the night after that.

I remember watching dispassionately and thinking, "Wow, you don't see this kind of stuff out in the open".

The other was a "This doesn't go out of this room." meeting when it was announced the company was going to screw the customer. WTF. The lol was the excuse that any issues would be handled by warranty. Like that would ever happen for a $100 million dollar chunk of scrap metal.

The other was a chance encounter years after the fact when a co-worker of sorts told me about being a bag man. Turned out there was a real cause for a lawsuit that got dismissed because there was insufficient proof.

The fourth was a meet up with a PhD chemist that specialized in spectroscopy. They related how they developed, by stealing the product ingredients, a new product that was exactly the same as a competitors.

I find people and their reactions interesting since prejudice and habit don't explain reactions in toto.

[MajGenl.Meade]