Sunday, March 3, 2013

Is America, the land of the brave living within the land of the sissy, or vice-versa?

I just finished seeing Zero Dark Thirty, which refers to all that US risk-taking needed in order to kill Osama Bin Laden, something quite compatible with the “land of the brave”. 

But then I compare that to all that sissy and dumb risk-aversion implicit in bank regulations which pay banks extra returns on equity, for lending to “The Infallible”, no matter how useless, and not when lending to “The Risky”, no matter how important, and I wonder how all that can coexist within one same country. There just has to be some immense disconnect. 

Is America, USA, the land of the brave living within the land of the sissy, or vice-versa?