Jon wrote:
IMO, however, films like "American Beauty" and "Fight Club"
> barely scratch the surface of this country's fundamental problems. These
> films acknowledge that there is something deeply wrong with the collective
> soul of America, something we can't quite put our finger on, some profound
> sense of wrongness seeping slowly but surely into our hearts; the consumer
> culture obviously becomes an easy prime suspect. You mentioned that eerie
> feeling so many people get while in supermarkets and Wal-Marts; this
feeling
> easily leads people into believing that the consumer culture must be the
> mysterious force that seems to be poisoning our souls. But the consumer
> culture is not the problem. Capitalism is not the problem. Our problems
here
> are not rooted in politics at all.
> Films like "Fight Club" and "American Beauty" point to the sense of
> wrongness, but they both misinterpret it; they offer, as advice, biological
> distraction as a means of coping with our problems, but no real solutions.
> They can't offer any real solutions to the problem because they don't know
> what the problem really is.
> This country loves to blow the "little" wrongs of society out of
> proportion in order to divert attention from the "big" wrongs. Race,
> religion, politics; petty stuff, ultimately. Humanity's true problems are
at
> a much deeper level, but nobody seems interested. They'd rather continue
> arguing about race, religion, and politics. And abortion.
>
David Lind writes:
Yes, yes, yes. People seem to be like the doctors who get hung up on
the symptoms and forget that the disease is the problem.
Shalom
David Lind
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