I was just watching a trailer/promo/interview segment on the upcoming movie The Watchmen, and I couldn't help think about something that's been bothering me about my country for a long, long, long, long time. We're completely out-of-touch with our fellow human beings, countries, and cultures.
While the world is trying to cope with OUR financial miscalculations, we spend our time making movies about anti-social and petulant white superheros, implying that Americans have evolved so far above daily concerns that super-powers are the only things left for us to achieve. It's beyond horrible.
Movies are LITERALLY our culture (along with TV and radio), and it is this culture which we export, more than anything else, to other countries. Our culture, then, is basically telling the rest of humanity "Sucks to your daily life, culture, points of view, etc, you should be identifying with the lives of OUR fictitious comic book-heros!"
Uhm. No. When America has crashed and burned, we'll have a country of infantile adults wondering why the rest of the world is pointing and laughing at us. Gee. I wonder why.
Peace out.
While the world is trying to cope with OUR financial miscalculations, we spend our time making movies about anti-social and petulant white superheros, implying that Americans have evolved so far above daily concerns that super-powers are the only things left for us to achieve. It's beyond horrible.
Movies are LITERALLY our culture (along with TV and radio), and it is this culture which we export, more than anything else, to other countries. Our culture, then, is basically telling the rest of humanity "Sucks to your daily life, culture, points of view, etc, you should be identifying with the lives of OUR fictitious comic book-heros!"
Uhm. No. When America has crashed and burned, we'll have a country of infantile adults wondering why the rest of the world is pointing and laughing at us. Gee. I wonder why.
Peace out.
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