What's the USA's motto, is it a great nation?

If America had a motto, I think it may be something like this, “Freedom is the highest good a nation can provide, and it is done with sensible and just Democracy that protects the sacred rights every person is entitled to by a government which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” That last little bit there is the key phrase. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Those three things were decided upon after great consideration a long time ago in light of the nature of humanity, the purpose of government, and civilization in general. They were set as the foundation for the USA to be built upon.

Right now, the USA isn’t anywhere close to what that dream intended for it to be. What it is now is a threatening abomination that every other nation in the world should seriously take measures to subdue before another and more catastrophic world war occurs. However, if the USA government is maintaining its nation the way its supposed to, and not fouling it up and doing nothing to make things livable, then I think it would be really great in certain ways, but not everything. It would be the best for artists, have great entertainment, and great education. It’s none of those things now, and is probably among the worst for that. That would also attract some of the best warriors, because after a long day of battle and training, warriors especially like to have fun.

One of the things about the USA is that aside from Native Americans who are a diminishing minority (which shouldn’t be a cause for concern because even though racial ancestry gets mixed you can still keep the cultural memory and value alive), there isn’t really a traditional culture for the USA that has matured through countless generations, such as a place like China, or Iran, or India, or Ethiopia. In the USA, people of all sorts come here and bring their culture with them, so ours takes all kinds of forms and changes all the time. It’s very chaotic. There is something to be said about the value of a time tested culture of a very old nation that makes it uniquely special and great in its own way.

I would say that the Native American’s are the USA’s for that, but I don’t think that would be accurate, because the people who established the USA sort of just took over the place and made everything very different very fast. It’s like a transplant of civilization across the Atlantic ocean which took over the entire environment. It’s definitely not fair what happened to the Native Americans, but we can’t go back in time and do things differently, so we basically respect Native Americans here with special cultural privileges. We try to protect that culture from being totally overwhelmed by outside influences so people can remember the ancients of this land and cultivate their wisdom.

Did you know that back when Native American tribes used to go to war with each other for glory and resources (like all people everywhere probably did at some point), it was more honorable and won more glory for a warrior to earn a coup, which was a near kill but skillfully restrained so that the other warrior knew that they could have been killed and weren’t, than actually killing other warriors in battle. Something like that is recognized because the defeated warrior accepts their defeat and leaves, which is how they keep their honor despite being defeated. I bet you that is the kind of thing the traditional samurai in Japan could resonate with, because even without knowing their culture in depth, I know they respected honor on the highest level like that, which is mercy. I think that’s why they cut off the samurai’s head when they did seppuku.

We are talking about different civilizations on different scales here. When a lord loses to a lord, he can’t just go to a farm and no longer be a lord. There is a divine connection that powers the authority of a true lord, and one cannot relinquish it after they accept it and still be honorable. Doing that would be a betrayal of the sacred after receiving its blessing, which is universally dishonorable and despised. So rather than go on fighting to the bitter end with countless lives of people in his care, he himself dies for them and severs that connection bound to his very life.

Things are different now though because of how much people have learned from each other all over the world, and I think most nations are realizing the sense there is in keeping divine authority separate from secular authority. A mortal human should not at the same time have the power of secular authority and the authority of divine power. That’s another topic for another day. In any case, matters of honor are universal among warriors of all cultures because it’s pretty much the same everywhere, just done in different styles for different reasons.

So… um… what the USA leaders are doing now is dishonorable because they are betraying the sacred principles of the very government they are using for its secular power. It’s horribly evil and unjustified, and they are doing a lot of harm and no good with it, which defeats not only the purpose of the US government, but of all governments anywhere. That is a threatening notion if you consider the destructive power of an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, many of which probably vastly exceed what was used in WW2, but are kept classified.