America is
From AMERICA [a text in 99 points] by Paulo José Miranda, a Portuguese writer who won the first José Saramago Prize:
6. It doesn't make sense to say, unless in medieval terms, that America wants to rule the world. It doesn't make sense, because America is the world. It is the world not for having conquered it; but because the world lives from, for and against America. The term New World also doesn't make sense anymore.16. The Internet Americanized the world more than Hollywood had already done. Wherever there's Internet, there's America. Wherever there was Roman Law, there was Rome.
When Isabel Zumtobel interviewed Paulo José Miranda she asked him: "But, notwithstanding the text, what is your political position? For instance, regarding the war and occupation of Iraq, do you agree with Bush's decision?"
Miranda: "First of all, America is not Bush! This doesn't mean that I'm against Bush, but it also doesn't mean that I'm for him. The America that I wrote is the America of all Americans (and of those who aren't) and of all the time it took to come to this point. In the Western world, America is in all of us, to a greater extent than God. There isn't a home that is not American. More than ever, America is today a symbol of victory. Many countries and ideologies have lost power during the last century, America goes on gaining. America keeps gaining. My text is about human victory."
Rainy Day wishes all its American readers a very happy Thanksgiving.
