SWgranI did not say Americans are primitive - at least not in the way you are defining primitive - that is that you see it a pejorative word, where I see it merely as descriptive of when in time people lived ie, primitive comes from the word 'prime' or first.
So I am referring to early humankind, who I see as being as intelligent and as civilised as us, but whose passage through time was not sufficient to bring them to our level of technology.
Many of these people had religious or philosophical beleifs that endowed comets, celestial bodies that are entirely ephemeral, in sight one week/month/year, then gone, possibly never to be seen again, with deep significance for human life and from whome much is expected and dreaded.
Today, certainly in the English speaking western world the loss of religion seems to have been replaced by the adoration of celebrities, people who are here today, gone tomorrow - and Elon Musk is one of those celebrities, at the moment, the best friend of future Presidents, up there with Taylor Swift.
I just wonder how long it will last, sooner or later there will be a clash of egos/Trump/Musk and Trump will win because Trump is President and the world will lose interest in Musk, other than as a very odd technocrat. Like the comet, he will have had his moment in time illuminating the world and being watched by millions and he will just become a laughing stock like Jeff Bezos and his inflatable companion. He will continue to be very innovative and make money, it is just that he won't
the celebrity he is now.
The Americas still have primitive people, as do many area of the world. You may choose to look down on them I do not.
Are you irritating in RL? (light hearted)
