Listening and speaking

Roselyn 2022-04-20 09:02:01

When did we stop actually communicating face-to-face, listening and speaking in our native language with a real human being. The most impressive part of the movie, or the one that grabbed me, was the part where Frank went to the office and had a conversation with a colleague. What are the topics we share, TV, Internet, radio and speech from others, and the content that constitutes these topics is speech from other TV, Internet, radio and others. Our seemingly liberal life is actually an authoritarian world of thought. I'm almost forgetting when was the last time a productive conversation happened, when we had Google and wikis, questioning and answering were almost a luxury. In fact, this so-called liberalism has indeed successfully eroded human thinking ability, and it has become more and more difficult to find someone who can independently explore the philosophy of mind and body.
If we go back to the current social picture of the United States laid out in the film, we see these depraved, ugly and disgusting, pretentious, despicable plots, their root is not the proliferation of liberalism, and it is not free transition at all. Unfortunately, there is absolutely no freedom at all here. Human beings are born free, it is the freedom of thought, and only the freedom of thought. All our conduct, including speech, is at any given time subject to tighter or looser constraints—from morality to law.
Where did this rude America come from? She is not from anywhere, she is always here. Pride, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, gluttony, lust, etc., have never disappeared or weakened since the beginning of human beings. The floods and beasts we think of today are still overturning the rivers and seas a thousand years ago.

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  • Dario 2022-01-03 08:02:16

    The director satisfied my fantasy.

  • Vallie 2022-01-03 08:02:16

    Goodnight, Juno ... fuck you, Frank.

God Bless America quotes

  • Frank: Oh, I get, and I am offended. Not because I've got a problem with bitter, predictable, whiny, millionaire disk jockeys complaining about celebrities or how tough their life is, while I live in an apartment with paper-thin walls next to a couple of Neanderthals who, instead of a baby, decided to give birth to some kind of nocturnal civil defense air-raid siren that goes off every fuckin' night like it's Pearl Harbor. I'm not offended that they act like it's my responsibility to protect their rights to pick on the weak like pack animals, or that we're supposed to support their freedom of speech when they don't give a fuck about yours or mine.

    Office Worker: So, you're against free speech now? That's in the Bill of Rights, man.

    Frank: I would defend their freedom of speech if I thought it was in jeopardy. I would defend their freedom of speech to tell uninspired, bigoted, blowjob, gay-bashing, racist and rape jokes all under the guise of being edgy, but that's not the edge. That's what sells. They couldn't possibly pander any harder or be more commercially mainstream, because this is the "Oh no, you didn't say that!" generation, where a shocking comment has more weight than the truth. No one has any shame anymore, and we're supposed to celebrate it. I saw a woman throw a used tampon at another woman last night on network television, a network that bills itself as "Today's Woman's Channel". Kids beat each other blind and post it on Youtube. I mean, do you remember when eating rats and maggots on Survivor was shocking? It all seems so quaint now. I'm sure the girls from "2 Girls 1 Cup" are gonna have their own dating show on VH-1 any day now. I mean, why have a civilization anymore if we no longer are interested in being civilized?

  • Roxy: Musically, I'm all about Alice Cooper.

    Frank: I like Alice Cooper.

    Roxy: You don't *like* Alice Cooper, Frank. That, that, that's like a Muslim saying that he *likes* Muhammad. You *accept* Alice Cooper.