Re: Dumb Americans (Warning: Zero Audi Content)

[Wolff <wolff_b@ix.netcom.com>]

Audial wrote:
> 
> Before this thread dies it's natural death, I have to put something in here,
> for the foreign members of the Qlist.
> 
> Americans are not dumb.  Contradictory, yes.  Ambitious and overzealously
> litigous, yes.  At times trying to rely too much on "common sense" to "solve"
> complicated problems, yes.
> 
> If you are not from America, maybe the best way to get a grasp on this country
> and its faults and strengths are to take a picture of Mickey Mouse and put it
> next to a picture of a mushroom cloud.  Realize that _the same country_ has
> produced more of each than any other on the planet.  Then search your mind for
> the missing ingredients that can harmonize these two images.  Good luck, many
> have tried but few can claim success.  And when you try, remember that your
> description will have to account for people as far apart as J. Edgar Hoover
> and Noam Chomsky, Reverend Billy Graham and Marilyn Manson, Martin Luther
> King, Jr., and [current national pastor of the KKK] Thomas Robb,  American
> Indians telling stories with the sand and Robert Mapplethorpe with a bullwhip
> in his butt.  It is a _very_ strange place sometimes, and you can often cross
> the border of strange in the span of a city block.  Other places are a little
> easier to get a read on - Liechtenstein, for example.
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Alex

Thanks Alex.
Wolff 

P.S. Surprising insight from an AOLer. :)
                                ^^^^^^ It's a joke everyone! playing on
a sometimes deserved stereotype, but only in fun. Is it perpetuating the
stereotype? Maybe, but if you can recognize that, then you are fine.
Just chuckle a little bit, hit the delete key and move on. Happy Q-ing.