Comments | crescimento: Screw you Europe.

crescimento

Screw you Europe.

Apr 17, 2006 21:35

I feel like bitching more. Today's "screw you and the horse you rode in on" is for the folks who like to tear down and ridicule American culture & the US government by pointing to some European country as a beacon of morality. Are you serious? I don't mind criticism of this country, the culture, or the government, obviously. But get off your high ( Read more... )

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rockthemike April 18 2006, 05:17:05 UTC

While we may all be on the same plane of fucked, certain countries in the EU certainly got some shit right that we can't (religion in politics, for instance). So I think it's alright to give them the respect they deserve for that.

crescimento April 18 2006, 05:25:53 UTC

Certainly, I think pointing to examples of where one would like this country to strive toward is a good idea, one worth exploring. I was referring more to that tone that gets taken by some when there is something redeeming about said country, they start climbing on some tower as if the whole damn package is great and everything here is shit.

Like thinking a girl with a nice body and a shitty personality is worth sticking around with, does that make more sense?

naked_doug April 18 2006, 06:27:50 UTC

can you put her on mute?

naked_doug April 18 2006, 06:28:11 UTC

wait that's not the point, huh?

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morenamuse April 18 2006, 12:26:21 UTC

word.

we're such dreamy idealists, american-"politically-minded"-youth, I mean. it's the same sort of curtain ideas about the states that french people have-- only they think american culture/politics has got EVERYthing wrong.
there's good stuff in every culture, and plenty of problems there too. france is great about not mixing "religion and politics" except when it passes laws that forbid wearing what you want to (read:veil) to school while the kids sporting crosses don't get hasseled with.
the only perfect country is hypothetical. because no people could exist there.

crescimento April 20 2006, 03:28:14 UTC

your last 2 lines really should replace two thirds of my rant. it hits it in the nose.

kenatent April 18 2006, 17:11:23 UTC

Yes, Europe and KXPX are both overrated.

tyrven April 18 2006, 20:23:17 UTC

Funny. I had made a note to myself to write a rant about this exact topic for my journal today (as a result of several conversations I had about this over the last week) but then I came across this entry which pretty much says it all ( ... )

crescimento April 20 2006, 03:34:04 UTC

well shit, your last two paragraphs cover a post & the points ive been wanting to tackle as an outcome of many draining conversations at work.

i still might have to take a run at it, because the over-simplification of politics i hear coming out of so many people really boils my blood, and ive been recently feeling like doing nothing but getting on an e-soapbox.

fritz_da_kat April 20 2006, 07:12:45 UTC

As long as there are Rush Limbaugh's (and the total nut cases who speak on AM radio) on one side, somebody like Michael Moore on the other side is quite essential. You cannot win with reason alone, you need extremes, innuendos and manipulation.

tyrven April 20 2006, 07:59:28 UTC

I agree with that. What irks me is the self-righteous arrogance of calling conservatives ignorant tools when those people get most of their information from prescription belief sets and Michal Moore "documentaries".

But then I guess that's part of the game, right? Being informed may not popular but believing you're informed is. Which may subsequently be said about having a choice or any real authority over ones life.

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