An open letter to certain parties...

[conuly]

"Greatest country in the world" is a meaningless statement until and unless you give some sort of metric. In what way is this the "greatest" country? What, exactly, are you measuring here? That's not sarcasm - or, at least, it doesn't have to be. Just give me something to work with here!

(I've tried actually asking people individually, but I've never gotten anything constructive out of them. I think they don't know what they mean either.)

Comments

[hudebnik]

Exactly. And if I lived in another country, I would see its greatness (and its shortcomings) too.

Sibelius wrote a sorta-national anthem to that effect: it talks about how beautiful the skies, the trees, the mountains, of my country... and then immediately points out that other countries have beautiful skies, trees, and mountains too. And so on.

[conuly]

I've always loved that song.