[lit-ideas] Re: Michael Moore and other 'nutters'
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 09:59:50 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Whatever. His movies are funny, but wrong. Columbine is a long series of
non-sequiturs about violence, guns, pilgrims, and the NRA. It plays to the
fears of the urban anti-gun crowd.
A.A. I liked Columbine and I agree with it. The American media is the biggest
terrorist we have. They take anything and blow it out of all proportion,
almost forcing a gullible public to glue themselves to the tubes or flat
screens or whatever. When SARS was happening, a total of something like XXX
people died. Okay, XXX is not a small number of people. Yet, literally
millions, as in X,XXX,XXX, world wide die just from diarrhea that comes from
dirty water, and not one word is mentioned. No self-serving job security there
at all, not a bit. Likewise Anthrax. They worked the country for everything
they could get. Turn on any news program, and they will give you a reason to
be scared, to get armed, etc. Early in my subscription to this list, I
referred to dream research. Part of that research found that American men have
the most violence-oriented dreams of any developed nation. Is it our genes?
I'm neither left nor right, rather apolitical mostly, and from where I stand,
Michael Moore makes a lot of sense.
Andy Amago
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
Other related posts:
