To be an American

Most people who are not American wish that they were. That image imported to them from across the Atlantic is so tangible, vivid, and reachable, that they can almost taste freedom even before they reach American soil. So many layers of freedom are laid upon the imagination by an American forging. First layer is freedom from oppression broken down into primarily freedom of expression and being able to speak your mind to whoever regardless of their social status in life. Then the freedom to choose who rules you be that the sage of the lot or the idiot of the village. The second layer is freedom from belief of choice imposed by a sect that dictates that all equal in belief, a proposition that is propestrous in itself. However, that freedom is granted within constraints, and therefor does that defy freedom or define it? The third layer is freedom of a choice of destiny. It is possible "only in America" to make your own destiny. That prospect that ranges from having your own house and car, to the owner of a money generating business, to becoming a millionaire or a president or - both!

Then comes the ideology of American freedom that deafen the sound of freedom all at once. There is equality but not between colors, even though so many attempts are made to make it so, and therefore barely a sense of freedom. Gender is not equal, and therefore not free, however hard that there is that push for it. And when it comes to belief, well! A mouthful is said but rarely is reality the soil of acceptance and tolerance, if applicability. Then all of these contradictions combined are exported to the world so that the world can free, yet everyone who received it found out, sooner or later, that is an alternate agenda. Put the town's sage or the village idiot at the top, American freedom remains the same.

Every freedom given the world from America is because it is in the best interest of America. If the statue of justice has a blindfold lady, then how can America with a single Vito title the balance of justice whichever way it seems fit because it is in the best interest of America. There was a youth revolution that stopped the Vietnam war because it was not America's business to interfere in a conflict that was not theirs. Move forward a few years, and a new generation of youth put their lives on the line for that same freedom contested years before in Afghanistan and Iraq. And after the whole the world stood in the face of Iraq invasion, American stilly defying and defining freedom, still went ahead and invaded it.

What is freedom? What is it if not without justice? If the last person standing cannot speak their mind, and those with decision making powers heed these words and act upon it. By definition of business, when a customer complains that actually means loyalty to the place of business. They would like to see that policies amended to serve the greater good. They would like to see their place of business improve, if not dominate the field that they are in. I guess we don't see anyone complaining about Apple, Nike or Toyota' prices. People are free to choose these brands because they know the quality in it. And it is a fair bet they lead the market because they LISTEN to their customers. So it is for freedom that is called upon its justice as long as cases are made and listened to and acted upon.

I am not sure whether it is amazing or amusing that people around the world remember the fourth of July as if it is their own Independence Day. They remember it as a day to celebrate but celebrate what exactly. The lasting memory is that of colors in the sky as if the whole world is rejoicing in something. Then turn that day of the calendar and no one is sure what the political kitchen is going to cook up next, where being American claims freedom for all, but when all claim freedom, it seems that the American distributor can only give it out in small doses, and not all can make the cut.