RE: The Last Movie You Watched
October 21, 2020 at 11:05 am
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2020 at 11:06 am by onlinebiker.)
(October 21, 2020 at 9:29 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(October 21, 2020 at 9:22 am)Sal Wrote: If you like a conceited exposé of American "exceptionalism" and canned stereotypes of Italian, Indian, Bali, Swedish & Brazilian cultures through that lense, this is the movie for you. I had a whole love to hate thing going on the whole movie.
"Join the Navy and see the world." Challenge accepted when I was 18. Over the next twenty years I rented hotel rooms in 72 countries. I had three hundred or so pen pals when I retired. I drove all the way around the Med. I traveled from Cairo to Cape Town. Circumnavigated South America. I loved meeting new people. One thing I learned from all that was that almost everybody thinks their home country is the best place in the world to be. So American "exceptionalism" is just the American version of the general "exceptionalism".
The best example I heard was a guy who fled Albania... For years they had a fence that the governm6ent insisted was to keep "the outsiders out"..... Most people believed it.
The dude said - "Why would anyone try to sneak in here? What are they going to steal? My shit cart?".
Logical dude....