midnight motorway noises
16 December 2007
taking liberties
It is very easy, with all the anti-American (or, more precisely, anti-Bush) rhetoric among friends, on the television and in the newspapers in this country, to believe ourselves right again. Or not as wrong.
I am so often guilty of feeling better-than, and therefore good enough. We become so sidetracked by the ritual mockery of our Atlantic neighbour - stereotyping her citizens and chastising that person's mindboggling apathy and unerring stupidity - that we neglect the self-deprecation that we're supposed to be so good at and get tangled up in betterness rather than betterment.
I watched Taking Liberties on YouTube but I'm sure it could be obtained through more approved channels. It doesn't present much that you wouldn't know already, but it's refreshing and alarming to see it packaged without the obligatory butamerica'sstillworse wrapping.
I am so often guilty of feeling better-than, and therefore good enough. We become so sidetracked by the ritual mockery of our Atlantic neighbour - stereotyping her citizens and chastising that person's mindboggling apathy and unerring stupidity - that we neglect the self-deprecation that we're supposed to be so good at and get tangled up in betterness rather than betterment.
I watched Taking Liberties on YouTube but I'm sure it could be obtained through more approved channels. It doesn't present much that you wouldn't know already, but it's refreshing and alarming to see it packaged without the obligatory butamerica'sstillworse wrapping.
gillyscribbles, at 5:27 pm
