<< Actually, I thought he [Moore] did offer a good hypothesis: he asserted that Americans are whipped up into a frightened/paranoid frenzy more than any other people on earth. >>
... and which he tied to a US history of violent racial oppression. (A subject he supposedly avoids, per the gist of an earlier thread here.)
When I saw "Bowling...", I was amazed to find such as ambitious thesis in a (darkly) humorous work directed at a mass audience. Yes, the film was "flawed." The flaws were a product of the film's ambition. And most of it worked.
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 09:45:59 -0700
>Actually, I thought he did offer a good hypothesis: he asserted that ...
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