{"id":10985,"date":"2025-06-24T17:13:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/an-open-letter-to-america-from-someone-who-still-believes-in-you\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T17:13:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:13:57","slug":"an-open-letter-to-america-from-someone-who-still-believes-in-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/an-open-letter-to-america-from-someone-who-still-believes-in-you\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to America\u2014From Someone Who Still Believes in You"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Profit<\/a>
\n<\/p>\n

\n

Dear America,<\/p>\n

I want to begin with this:<\/p>\n

I love you.<\/p>\n

I really, truly do.<\/p>\n

I lived in your cities. I walked your campuses. I sat in your coffee shops, dreaming of building something that could change the world.<\/p>\n

America was where I studied. Where I discovered my voice.
Where I fell in love with ideas that reshaped my life.<\/p>\n

Where I started Mindvalley, with nothing but ambition and a belief that anything was possible.<\/p>\n

For a full decade, you were my home.
And in many ways, you still are.
I may live elsewhere now, but I still identify as American more than anything else.<\/p>\n

Because America\u2014the idea of America\u2014isn\u2019t just geography.
It\u2019s a frequency. A dream. A promise that inspired not just me, but billions of people around the world.<\/p>\n

What we loved about you<\/h2>\n

We loved your optimism\u2014the way you believed anything was possible.
We loved your rebels\u2014the ones who spoke truth to power and rewrote the rules.<\/p>\n

We loved your Martin Luther King Jr.<\/strong>, whose voice still echoes across continents.
We loved your Silicon Valley<\/strong>, that dared to invent the future.
We loved your Apple<\/strong>, born in a garage, changing the way we connect.
We loved Burning Man<\/strong>, a wild celebration of freedom, creativity, and community in the desert.
We loved your poets, your scientists, your dreamers.<\/p>\n

You were never perfect. But damn\u2014you had soul.<\/em><\/p>\n

You were the lighthouse.
The messy, brilliant, complicated beacon we looked toward for what was possible.<\/p>\n

But lately\u2026 that light feels like it\u2019s flickering.<\/p>\n

What the world sees now<\/h2>\n

In just six months, this is what the world has seen:<\/p>\n

\u2013 Threats to abandon NATO, the alliance that preserved peace for generations.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Pointless trade wars where everyone loses.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Treaty, while the Earth burns.<\/p>\n

\u2013 And now\u2014bombs falling on Iran.<\/p>\n

Another unwinnable war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

A war your people swore<\/em> they\u2019d never allow again.<\/p>\n

Not after Iraq.<\/p>\n

Not after Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just the outer world we see you destroy.<\/p>\n

We see you tearing yourselves apart from within.\u00a0<\/p>\n