Why We Fight?

    It's no secret that America spends a TON of money on its defense system (military, creating new weapons), so much money that we have been referred to being a part of "the military industrail complex", a system where we spend millions of dollars giving private companies contracts to make the latest weapon and defense technology.

Here's a startling statistic: If you look to look at the graph posted below and did the math, you will see that U.S. spends more money on it's defense system than all the other countries (listed down below that is) combined.

It is now a perfectly valid to ask the question: Why is that?

    Last night I went to go see "Thor: The Dark World" and there were tons of previews. The majority of those previews were for movies set in high tech futures, movies with robots and spies and gadgets and explosions. and that's not the first time I've seen movies come out like those. It mad me wonder if, culturally, we as Americans are focused too much on being the best all the time. Oftentimes, we refuse to see our own faults and instead try to be the hero at any cost, running into people's business, feeling like we have to be on top all the time. It's exhausting. Our budget is getting tired (I think it fell asleep some time ago) and i think that we as a people are getting tired as well. Our spending, be it on high budget gadgets or flicks, seems to be just another example of why we need to take a break, step balk, and remember that it's okay not to win at everything. We don't have to pretend to be perfect and maybe it's time we all just stepped back and took a deep breath.