I was moved by Oscar’s piece There Is None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See.
I lived outside America in the years of innocence. Those were the years when the American myth were all that sipped out to the world beyond. These days, someone in Sahara desert can read the New York Times and hear the voice of the anonymous Americans.

The anonymous American is usually that all-knowing fellow who in reality is frightened by a world he does not understand but who masks his ignorance by manifesting a machismo that is flawed in scope and in loop.

Despite all you have heard, America is full of anonymous Americans. They are not silent. But again, they have no confidence in their viewpoint to market it without a cover. They cover themselves in the coat of patriotism, nationalism, Christendom, racial purism and anti-communism. They fit so well that description of the scoundrels who do not know how much they need to know before they know how little they know.

What makes America great is the brilliance of a very few Americans who are enlightened beyond belief. They are the ones who guide the nation to greatness. These prodigies do so with a keen awareness that the anonymous Americans may be at the fringe but in their hands is the very key to abyss. The brilliant Americans know that in their complacency the anonymous Americans will open the door of abyss and a great many Americans will follow them down the drain.

A great many Americans are decent people who wish to live in peace with the rest of the world, even if it means being left alone or leaving the rest of the world alone. Give them their sport, their burger, and their beer and they are all set. If you throw in naked women, thrill of gambling and ecstasy, you have made their day. They are contented with a world that has New York as a capital, Canada as a different planet and others as alien territories. To then a game between New York team and Los Angeles team is a world series. They mean no harm.

The anonymous Americans, on the other hand, are not satisfied with their place in America. To compensate for their inadequacies, they try to project absurd power, shallow supremacy, and disgusting indignation to the rest of humanity. They are so despicable in their disposition that they cover themselves in the veil of anonymity.

The first sign that you have met an anonymous American is when he says that some other people should be nuked. In their small minds, they have reduced the 20th century into this narrative: America nuked the Japanese and turned them into democrats. America threatened to obliterate the Russians in a televised star wars and the Russians bowed – abandoning communism for capitalism. Therefore, America can subdue anyone anywhere in the world with the same tactics if only the sissies in American will let America be what the good Lord wanted America to be.

The anonymous American is not going to go away any time soon. The opening up of the world and the connectivity of everyone in it will not enlighten him. Rather, it is going to push him deeper into his own world where he will come up with greater schemes, weirder ideas, and explosive urgency.

We have no option but to share this world with the anonymous Americans. The anonymous Americans do not just upset the rest of the world; they also upset the ‘silent majority’ in America. To the anonymous American, New York is a crime zone, Los Angeles is the devils workshop, and Las Vegas is the playground of the infidels.

Every country has its own fools. Here in America, we have our anonymous Americans.