a little follow on to my last (to try to keep it shorter)
a grand example of having 'core values' --------- which are just noise and they don't actually exist -
is America --------- which, not long back - Americans would have talked about 'American core values' -----
and they would have pointed to the 'New Colossus' and said --------
there's one - that's a core value of America ------
well, look at it now ------------------- shot to bits. Why?
because it was rubbish ----- nice idea. But, it was fake.
Hasn't existed for a long time, if ever it did and doesn't exist now, in the slightest.
The New Colossus By Emma Lazarus
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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
