I am a stupid American Pig

That was my little epiphany for the day. I started reading Rutherford's book and realized how much it bothers me that he spells words like "honor" as "honour" and "behavior" as "behaiviour." I'm still trying to find the reasons why, but it irritates me so much. As I read on through the chapter, my patience worsened, and I started thinking, "What makes this vestigial "u" so annoying to me?" is it the "torrent" of over-americanization that gives me a haughty impression of the author? Is it just personal taste, or does it make some comment on some elitest by-product of american ideals? It might. I can't pinpoint where the influences may have originated, or how they have managed to make me linguistically biased, but I would really like to know. This idea got me wondering, how many other facets of my convictions and identity have been formed by some anonymous force? But i do like the way that this problem parallels the author's argument.
Moving to a different subject, I liked the fact that Rutherford came right out and tells the reader why he wrote his book unlike others... The cartoons are hilarious, and i really liked the association of Smokey the bear with propaganda. Regarding my previous crisis, I'm not sure why, but i have always associated propaganda with something bad, with no explanation why.
While reading this chapter, I thought of something that i just want to throw out to everyone because i think its cool. The late, great comedian Mitch Hedberg, (we miss you) said that he once visited Canada, and was shocked that instead of Smokey the Bear discouraging young pyromaniacs, they employ Smackey the Frog. "No one ever says, hey, here comes that frog- everybody look out. Its more like hey here comes that frog, Awesome!" Bears are scary, ferocious killing machines who scare little kids into putting down mommy's lighter for fear of a vicious mauling. Apply this to the whorf hypothesis that states that words shape the way we percieve the world, and ask yourself, who are you more likely to listen to a friendly frog, or a six foot tall beast with razor sharp claws? I think the answer is obvious. Simply because I'm a loser, i did my homework-I know that there are thousands more factors that contribute to this, but Canada lost 2.5 million hectares (25,000 square Km) in 2000 to foreset fires... America lost 2.32--- Bears 1, Frogs 0.