I see. It's not intellect which allows us to understand the world, but an open mind.

I grew up in a country riddled with crime and governmental corruption at every level. I've seen the dark side of humanity, I know what desperate people are capable of doing. Distrusting the government is second nature to me.

Most of my American friends grew up in middle class comfort. They have no reason to distrust what the so-called authorities tells them, because they're not capable of imagining the evil acts power-hungry people are capable of committing.

Americans have enjoyed the most freedom out of any other people in the history of our civilization. Because of that we were also the most productive and prosperous people.

But prosperity without discomfort breeds stagnation and apathy. Americans forgot that freedom is hard-earned and easily lost. America has been a victim of its own success. But it's also the source of the solution.

The United States is the beacon of freedom for the world. America is and always has been an experiment: to determine whether humanity is mature enough to take its destiny into its own hands and choose freedom for itself (like what happens with the boat sequence in the Batman movie with the Joker. People proved the Joker wrong, they held off on exploding the bomb in the other boat even when they had no guarantee the other boat would do the same for them. They chose peace).

We are reaching the conclusion of the American experiment. We had to go through this terrible ordeal to wake up. The evidence suggesting we are indeed ready to advance to the next level of civilization is mounting. Our galactic destiny awaits.

The best is yet to come.