Who Destroyed The USA?
Posted: July 31st, 2012, 12:53 am
If you look at that Thai girl at time index 4:28, and you look at her clothes and dress and smile etc, you might get an impression of middle class or maybe higher. But I asked JC about that and you know what he said?
He said something that I found very interesting, and kind of opened my eyes....
He said "there is a quiet desperation about them".....
He did not go on to elaborate exactly what he meant by that statement but I think he was saying that these girls are poor, and live in poor circumstances, faced with the hard cold realities of life, such as a family member getting sick, needing medical treatment, etc.
Life can be very cruel and unkind, but they put on "face" and be "happy" as apart of the culture.
I found that both interesting and of course sad....
And I guess the Philippines is far more dire....
It's a real shame the world is like that, a real shame, and not something I grew up knowing living in California during the 70's and 80's growing up, the "good ole years"....
It's seems almost like yesterday, and yet it seems so long ago now, like a dream that never really happened, and I sometimes wonder if it really did.
Did I really go see Star Wars in 1977 in San Francisco at one of those gigantic theaters with like 3 levels that they don't have anymore when I was 9?
Did I really have a big wheel and rode it down hugs hills?
Did I really watch all these great cartoons on TV and so many great commercials about cereals and all kinds of stuff, so much stuff that I've forgotten about most of it.
Happy Days, Love Boat, 3's Company, Fantasy Island, Brady Bunch, I Dream of Jeanie, and too many more to list.
Was there really all this wonderful incredible music that came from every angle with so many different kinds of music and all of it incredibly good, way too many bands or artists to lists, literally thousands of them.
And was there really all these entertaining and funny commercials, from double mint gum commercials to big red commercials to juicy fruit commercials to more things than I could count or list, a commercial for everything, for m&m's, or coke, for pepsi, for pain killers, for bandaides, for all kinds of things, that was what made part of the culture, was that we had a thousand different commercials selling a thousand different things.
Is my memory correct? Did I really live this life? Or am I dreaming? I seem to have this memory that this is the way it was, and much much more. With video games and computers and movies and music and so much stuff on TV like after school movies or Saturday specials, the TV was always very entertaining.....
What happen?
Who pulled the plug?
Who turned the country upside down?
This was the USA, it was so great, who destroyed the country?
What a shame.....
Signed,
Devils Advocate
He said something that I found very interesting, and kind of opened my eyes....
He said "there is a quiet desperation about them".....
He did not go on to elaborate exactly what he meant by that statement but I think he was saying that these girls are poor, and live in poor circumstances, faced with the hard cold realities of life, such as a family member getting sick, needing medical treatment, etc.
Life can be very cruel and unkind, but they put on "face" and be "happy" as apart of the culture.
I found that both interesting and of course sad....
And I guess the Philippines is far more dire....
It's a real shame the world is like that, a real shame, and not something I grew up knowing living in California during the 70's and 80's growing up, the "good ole years"....
It's seems almost like yesterday, and yet it seems so long ago now, like a dream that never really happened, and I sometimes wonder if it really did.
Did I really go see Star Wars in 1977 in San Francisco at one of those gigantic theaters with like 3 levels that they don't have anymore when I was 9?
Did I really have a big wheel and rode it down hugs hills?
Did I really watch all these great cartoons on TV and so many great commercials about cereals and all kinds of stuff, so much stuff that I've forgotten about most of it.
Happy Days, Love Boat, 3's Company, Fantasy Island, Brady Bunch, I Dream of Jeanie, and too many more to list.
Was there really all this wonderful incredible music that came from every angle with so many different kinds of music and all of it incredibly good, way too many bands or artists to lists, literally thousands of them.
And was there really all these entertaining and funny commercials, from double mint gum commercials to big red commercials to juicy fruit commercials to more things than I could count or list, a commercial for everything, for m&m's, or coke, for pepsi, for pain killers, for bandaides, for all kinds of things, that was what made part of the culture, was that we had a thousand different commercials selling a thousand different things.
Is my memory correct? Did I really live this life? Or am I dreaming? I seem to have this memory that this is the way it was, and much much more. With video games and computers and movies and music and so much stuff on TV like after school movies or Saturday specials, the TV was always very entertaining.....
What happen?
Who pulled the plug?
Who turned the country upside down?
This was the USA, it was so great, who destroyed the country?
What a shame.....
Signed,
Devils Advocate