The myth of the Middle Ages as a "dark age" does not lie in the fact that things declined markedly after the fall of Rome—they did. The Middle Ages is known as a"dark age", imagine how life was in that time . It was basically a completely chaos , things got better though ("the renaissance ").
It is important to always have the politics because they help keep our community in tack and then it keeps us safe most of the time when we have no one else to depend on they also keep us together as a community and that be something worth it.
I would think most "Americans" are lazy and are just looking for a way out of taking the blame for why the u.s. is spiraling downward and so would a few other people but probably Most people in the country today would define an American as an independent and self reliant individual with strong family ties and strong loyalties to groups, individuality and individual rights.
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Technology is a boon as long as it is our slave. It's when we let it become a master, that it becomes a bane. ... When you say technology is dominating your life, in a sense you are allowing it to do so. As a human being you have a brain, to decide what's wrong, what's not, when to stop, and when to get off.