oh crap! - Bystanders Ignore Hit-and-Run Victim

[Detale]

Jesus try putting it in Google. One thing that comes to mind is a Red Hot Chili Peppers song "californication" There i a line in there like" It’s the edge of the world
And all of western civilization" now thats just off the topof my head, but check the search engines and ye shall see

[Barbarossa]

Psychic spies from China
Try to steal your mind's elation
Little girls from Sweden
Dream of silver screen quotations
And if you want these kind of dreams
It's Californication

It's the edge of the world
And all of western civilization
The sun may rise in the East
At least it settles in the final location
It's understood that Hollywood
sells Californication

Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Celebrity skin is this your chin
Or is that war your waging

[Chorus:]
First born unicorn
Hard core soft porn
Dream of Californication
Dream of Californication

Marry me girl be my fairy to the world
Be my very own constellation
A teenage bride with a baby inside
Getting high on information
And buy me a star on the boulevard
It's Californication

Space may be the final frontier
But it's made in a Hollywood basement
Cobain can you hear the spheres
Singing songs off station to station
And Alderon's not far away
It's Californication

Born and raised by those who praise
Control of population everybody's been there
and
I don't mean on vacation

[Chorus]

Destruction leads to a very rough road
But it also breeds creation
And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar
They're just another good vibration
And tidal waves couldn't save the world
From Californication

Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of aging
Sicker than the rest
There is no test
But this is what you're craving



It's like the answers to every question in the world ever

[Detale]

LOL Yes it is along with a few other RHCP songs

[Snee]

The meaning of that is that, as far as I always thought, it's the edge of the world and the edge of western civilization. (Looking at it now, I'm thinking it might also mean that they've imported ideas or whatever from everywhere, so it's like the sum of western civilisation.)

Look, it's really not that odd. As far as the term goes, it is a collective term for a whole lot of countries sharing similar cultures or standards of living, including both your and my country and it's been that way since it was invented. The only thing I'd have thunk people might disagree on, was exactly how many countries it might include. I, for instance, would have never included some eastern european countries, nor Israel.

I'm not trying to be harsh on you here, but it's sounds mad that someone would misappropriate the term to refer to one nation alone, ever. Especially, like callum (and myself in another place, when discussing this*) has said, since you already have a perfectly suitable name for that nation. And especially yours.

As a concept, it even goes back to the heydays of the vikings, the romans, and the greeks, and so forth. If anything, factoring in history and the foundations of the shared culture in what is western society, the U.S.A. is kind of peripheral.

To connect this to something squeamous said, this makes me think of having to argue the earth is round, when you thought everyone knew it.

EDit: *Not with callum. Other people.

[Barbarossa]

It's quite simple.

Western Civilisation - what Snee said.

Western Hemisphere - What herbert tried to say.

First born unicorn Hard core soft porn - no idea.

[kallieb]

A famous Social psych study was done back in the 60's by Darley & Latane, (1968), which mirrors similar findings from Stanley Milgram's experiment on Obedience that definitively concluded (and has been empirically proven over and over since) that... in a nutshell .... The more people that are around, the more likely it is that no one will help. It suggests that people convince themselves that someone else will render aide as a/ they're too busy, b/ they don't want to get involved, c/ blah blah blah..... One saving grace is that people were often distressed at not helping, but still did not help nonetheless.

Clearly the human-animal is as grossly predictable today as we were 40+ years ago.

[Hairbautt]

Think I remember hearing somethin' similar like dunbar's number and disassociation...

[Squeamous]

Snee.....don't forget we're still arguing about evolution and the death penalty. Sometimes I wonder wtf is wrong with human beings.