The most honest three and a half minutes of television, EVER...

[magical thyme]

67. sorry, but the obnoxious treatment of that young woman turned me off right from the start

Also the language. I'm not a prude, but when you need to use the f word over and over to make a point, you weaken your argument. I guarantee that his rude behavior did not persuade anybody to listen or change their minds. It only hardened people who were already in disagreement.

The factual statements were good. He left out that our great economic systems sucks up 33% of the worlds resources to support 5% of its population in style, so we're probably #1 in pampered.

The nostalgia, however, was for a past that never existed and for the record our artists are no better than other artists around the world.

We did some good and we did a lot of bad. We were founded on genocide and built on the backs of slaves. We are not the only people in the world to cure some diseases, and we've probably created more disease than we've cured anyway. And just because we "won" the race to put a man on the moon doesn't mean jack-shit in the overall scheme of things.

In other words, we're like every other empire that ever existed. We are like every other human that ever existed. Not total fuck ups, but not so awesome in our awesomeness, either.