Mais uma

Sobre aquele tópico de que eu tanto gosto, o anti-americanismo.
Diz Nassim Nicholas Taleb, matemático e "aspirante a filósofo" (segundo o próprio) libanês, em seu mais recente livro, "The Black Swan – The Impact of the Highly Improbable":

"Whenever you hear a snotty (and frustrated) European middlebrown presenting his stereotypes about Americans, he will often describe them as "uncultured," "unintellectual," and "poor in math" because, unlike his peers, Americans are not into equation drills and the constructions middlebrowns call "high culture" – like knowledge of Goethe's inspirational (and central) trip to Italy, or familiarity with the Delft school of painting. Yet, the person making these statements is likely to be addicted to his iPod, wear blue jeans, and use Microsoft Word to jot down his "cultural" statements on his PC, with some Google searches here and there interrupting his composition. Well, it so happens that America is currently far, far more creative than these nations of museumgoers and equation solvers. It is also far more tolerant of bottom-up tinkering and undirectd trial and error. And globalization has allowed the United States to specialize in the crative aspect of things, the production of concepts and ideas, that is, the scalable part of the products, and, increasingly, by exporting jobs, separate the less scalable components and assign them to those happy to be paid by the hour."

Taí, perfeito. Enquanto em algumas culturas se super-valorizou o saber "teórico", digamos, os americanos "burros" construíram a maior potência do mundo através de tentativa e erro, de mão na massa.
E tem gente que acha que eles têm que saber a capital do Brasil...

Ah sim, e eu já afirmei e reitero: eu não sou pró-americano ou coisa que o valha. Somente sou pró-bom-senso. E anti-dor-de-cotovelo.

PS.: Esse post vai especialmente para o Arthur que sentiu minha falta. :)
Voltarei com mais afinco, Mestre!
Mas não prometo...