As societies grow decadent the language grows decadent too. Words are used to disguise not to illuminate action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
America is false to the past false to the present and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.