Thursday, October 25, 2007
Rant of the day
Today's (half) rant courtesy of Kung Fu Monkey:
(italics and bold are from the original)
... This is only half-rant. The honest question is, what in the
American character keeps us returning to this completely false
self-image? Seriously, how did we get to a point where this
report may as well have started: "Hi there, Carol, we're about
to talk to people twenty years older than the average American
living a lifestyle less than one in five average Americans live
... to find out what the average American thinks" and somehow nobody blinks an eye?
There are four times as many Americans living in urban than rural
areas. There are four times as many people sucking back coffee
in New York city alone than make a living farming. According to the Burea of Labor, there are just as many people employed in Architecture and Engineering as farming, hell, 3 million people working in Computer and Mathematical jobs. But when one of
these "What does America think about culture" pieces comes on,
do I ever see a mid-30's software engineer onscreen bitching about having to download BitTorrents of "The IT Crowd"? Fuck and no.Four million people in the US play World of Warcraft. And yet, do I ever hear:
ANDERSON: We stopped by the gates of Ogrimmar in Durotar, on the east coast of Kalimdor, where one local told us Hollywood just can't relate to the level-grinding life.
UNIDENTIFIED ORC: They've never been back here, questing Razormane or Drygulch Ravine, y'know ... or farming for Peacebloom and Silverleaf. They're out of touch.
No. No I do not.
