...Iraq is to moviegoers what garlic is to vampires.
This is not merely a showbiz phenomenon but a leading indicator of where our entire culture is right now. It’s not just torture we want to avoid. Most Americans don’t want to hear, see or feel anything about Iraq, whether they support the war or oppose it. They want to look away, period, and have been doing so for some time...
Mr. Rich wants to put the shame as the central reason behind this.
Mr. Rich reads too much of his own feelings into the issue.
It's the same reason why the average Roman was more concerned with the Circus than the encroaching Visigoths. It's the same reason why the poor Christian Southerner embraced the slavery of the African even though the most he got out of all that black flesh was an occasional visit to the cathouse and someone to clean his outhouse. It's why cheap yard labor from Mexico and Chinese-made trinkets at Wal-Mart continue to immobilize the poor in their social strata like a Kansas trailer parker's addiction to OxyContin keeps them from affording to live anywhere but in tornado alley.
It's a result of the cultural mind control that keeps the rubes shelling over their pennies for the freak show that gives their limbic system the barest of tickles.
Old times there are not forgotten, whether they ever really existed or not.
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