Stupidity: The Ocean of all Oceans

1. "... our history is emphatically the history of progress ... the greatest and most highly civilized people that ever the world saw.., which have spread their dominion over every quarter of the globe ... have been the acknowledged leader of the human race in the career of political improvement.."

2. "... ours is the country of action. Love of conquest? No, proselytism. What this country wants above all is to impose her personality upon the vanquished, not because it is hers, but because she holds the naive conviction that it represents the type of the good and beautiful. She believes that she can render to the world no greater benefit than by presenting it with her ideas, her manners and her fashions.."

These lines are -both- more than a hundred and fifty years old; and yet how astonishngly relevent they look today. The first one is written by British, the second by French. A third has been written by Romans; a Fourth by Greeks; a Fifth by Germans; and the latest by Americans... Idiocy, as if it never reaches the bottom; as if it never ends.