Posted by Declan on August 27, 2005, at 20:24:14
In reply to Re: Rant continued » Declan, posted by sleepygirl on August 27, 2005, at 19:07:57
Hi Sleepygirl
It's quite common in some parts but not in others. This is Australia. Where I live it's greenies, old lefties and hippies and rich people and here it's not odd for people to write to the paper about US war crimes etc. Not all Australia is like that.
As to why there is this perception. I think it is US unilateralism, US foreign policy, the US entertainment industry, and US religion. I think maybe all of them at once is too much, and like Tamar said, the media projection of this highlights it.
At the Sydney Writers Festival I saw Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner, they do comics, good ones about politics, depression and cancer, and someone asked Joyce Brabner about why the US was so loopy and she said something like it's not just us, we are all in this hole together, and anyway who thought up Rupert Murdoch. Everyone there agreed that the overall prospects were depressing.
I think at least once a day, what would it be like for me and the people I know in the US. It must be something else.
And for heavens sake, I live in what many people say is the easiest country on earth to live in. And what's more in the nicest part of it.
I dunno
Declan
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