This one started out in my Shakespeare class, mostly because I detest classes and I wanted to write something patronizingly malicious about the type of people in class I despise the most, the ones that jump at every chance they can to impress the teachers.  That's where the whole laugh on cue, boo on cue... part came from.  But then the more I thought about it, the more I realized this sort of scathing indictment of behavior could be more generally applied to more than just university students, but to our society in general.  In fact, the title is the word AMERICA spelled backwards and minus the A's.  (Be forewarned, what follows is anti-establishment and potentially not to your liking.)  We live in a society that is not driven by ideological democracy and virtue; rather, we live in a society that for lack of a better description is valueless, wholly self-concerned, pragmatic, and very post-materialistic in a way I like to call consumerism.  Everything in this society is geared towards money and power, both how to control it and how to obtain more, along with that power comes the ruthlessness of wanting to keep it.  It is my opinion that this republican democracy of ours is not really a democracy nor a republic, but rather it is a state ruled by the power of the consumer, whose liquid assets and enhanced purchasing power drive every decision made both in the private corporate sector and in government.  We have wars in other parts of the world because people despise us, and we neglect to discover why they despise us so violently lest we be forced to examine ourselves and evaluate if our way of life is not exactly up to par.  We have wars in other countries that involve us because even though the ordinary John Q. Public has no conceivable connection to someone living in Far East Asia or the Middle East or Africa or South America or even Europe, his disposable American income resides in a country that is decidedly short on  resources and long on the unflailing desire to get what it wants.  If John Q. Public decided tomorrow that he didn't want to buy anymore oil for his oversized overpriced Japanese import SUV, the economies of several foreign nations would feel the pinch and overnight there would be a global economic shift.  Say the next day he decided he wanted a personal sized hovercraft that ran solely on bananas; you bet your bottom dollar the next day the lone African manufacturer of the vehicles and some banana rich Central American nations would feel increased pressure to produce as much as they could at the expense of their citizens and their lands, just because big ole bad America said so and if they dont agree, they can eat thermonuclear weapons for breakfast the very next day.  You see, this is the problem with the world.  The fact that there is inequity between countries and between people in those countries allows for some to wrest power away from others in order to do their bidding, and in so doing, they drag down the planet and humanity with them.  I firmly believe that humanity can, given the right conditions, live in harmonious symbiosis with his planet and its fellow inhabitants, that the problems which plague our modern world are brought on as consequences to our own actions to this point and that rectifying them means not to fix them by adding more problems on top so as to mask them, but by overhauling the underlying causes.  One of these main causes is inequality, both real and perceived, but most of which stems from only one thing- money.  If we can find a way to restore economic equality to the world, and not just to a particular country but to the world at large, we can then begin to enforce other initiatives to rectify the human problem that exists today.  We have to move away from free market capitalism and democratic republics that just do not work, and towards something more akin to true ideological communism, where every man is his fellow's equal and each contributes what he can to receive what he needs.  I do not mean Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, or Fidelism, or any of the other bastardized forms of Marxist philosphy that have been tested and failed.  I mean a globalized communism, in which the failures of the free republics system are resolved by removing the root causes of most human turmoil; inequality, prejudice, nationalism, greed, envy, etc.  Getting to that point, I'm sure, will not be easy.  But it's a hell of a lot better trying than sitting here on our asses going to hell in a handbasket because we like taking up 3 parking spaces in our Lincoln Navigators that get 5 inches to the gallon and have all cow interiors that make us somehow "important."  Radiohead has a lyric that goes "Pragmatism, not Idealism."  I say, why not Idealism?  We have the ability as a collective to do whatever we want; we have the technology and the manpower to put people on the moon, to build an internet that connects people around the world instantly, to investigate the smallest reaches of space and discover worlds we never could have dreamed of that were there all the time.  Why can't we put all that to work to live in a world that doesn't have to settle for being pragmatic, but can venture out further into the ideal?