Law Students

I Love America, Too

By Pete

Lileks has a great column today about how it’s un-PC to love America unless you temper your comments with sufficient criticism.

But. Someone somewhere is a practicing Baptist and someone somewhere else is eating a hamburger larger than you?d prefer, and other people are watching cars go around a track at high speed. As your skinny unhappy friend said the other night: people are just too fat and happy. He bites his nails and plays WoW six hours a night, but he has a point. It doesn?t matter that these fascists-in-fetal-form never quite seem to accomplish anything; it?s not like they drove the gay Teletubbies off the air or had Tony Kushner drawn and quartered in the public square. But they?re preventing something. Something wonderful. And they?re driving large cars to Wal-Mart and putting 18-roll packs of Charmin in the back and they have three kids. Earth has withstood a lot in its four billion years, but it cannot withstand them. And even if it does, who wants to live in a world where these people don?t care that they?re being mocked by small, underfunded theaters in honest, gritty neighborhoods? (Which are being gentrified by upwardly-mobile poseurs who have decided it?s a great place to live because the theater is good and the restaurants are cheap. F#$ing interlopers. But we?ll deal with them later.)

Excellent from beginning to end. Then again, if you didn’t pick up on the sarcasm in the quoted passage (or are mildly offended by it), you probably won’t like what you find on the other end of that link.

(Via: Kristin)

Full post as published by PeteHoliday.com on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).