Don't want to be in Amereeeka!
To quote Steven Sondheim, "Why don't you shut up and get gone!"
Here's Paltrow on why she doesn't want to live in America:
"Yes, well, I went to Spain in an exchange program at 15, and I've always been drawn to Europe. America is such a young country, with an adolescent swagger about it. But I feel that I have a more European sensibility, a greater respect for the multicultural nature of the globe. And it's a strange time to be an American now."
Yeah. Ya gotta love that European sensibility for multiculturalism, huh? Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Milosevic come immediately to mind...
Gimme a break.
Here's Paltrow on why she doesn't want to live in America:
"Yes, well, I went to Spain in an exchange program at 15, and I've always been drawn to Europe. America is such a young country, with an adolescent swagger about it. But I feel that I have a more European sensibility, a greater respect for the multicultural nature of the globe. And it's a strange time to be an American now."
Yeah. Ya gotta love that European sensibility for multiculturalism, huh? Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Milosevic come immediately to mind...
Gimme a break.
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Smoke on your pipe and put that in, Gwynnie baby! What do you expect from a woman who names her child after fruit?
Paltrow and her ilk remind me of the fashionable Spaniards and their concern with what's "fasca" (or however you spell it) in "Barcelona."
So why the hell doesn't she renounce her citizenship and go live in Europe? Yeesh.
She can watch her big, fat American paychecks go to pay for all the social safety nets in stagnant "Old Europe."
Need a ride to the airport, Gwyneth?
- Dirtbiker for W
You go, Rose.
Don't you just love it when English profs tell us How to Make the World a Better Place? It always reminds me of this exchange in The Tempest:
GONZALO. Had I plantation of this isle, my lord-
ANTONIO. He'd sow 't with nettle-seed.
SEBASTIAN. Or docks, or mallows.
GONZALO. And were the king on't, what would I do?
SEBASTIAN. Scape being drunk for want of wine.
GONZALO. I' th' commonwealth I would by contraries
Execute all things; for no kind of traffic
Would I admit; no name of magistrate;
Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,
And use of service, none; contract, succession,
Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;
No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;
No occupation; all men idle, all;
And women too, but innocent and pure;
No sovereignty-
SEBASTIAN. Yet he would be king on't.
ANTONIO. The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the
beginning.
GONZALO. All things in common nature should produce
Without sweat or endeavour. Treason, felony,
Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,
Would I not have; but nature should bring forth,
Of it own kind, all foison, all abundance,
To feed my innocent people.
SEBASTIAN. No marrying 'mong his subjects?
ANTONIO. None, man; all idle; whores and knaves.
GONZALO. I would with such perfection govern, sir,
T' excel the golden age.
SEBASTIAN. Save his Majesty!
ANTONIO. Long live Gonzalo!
Oh, lord. Is there any chestnut more stale than the one about how Europe is so old and wise and America is so young and brash? Aside from the fact that it's an argument that becomes inherently less valid the longer it's used, it's just not true--unless Gwyneth thinks that the proper lesson of a thousand years of European slaughter was simply to sit and watch the Balkans disintegrate while peddling weapons to genocidal African governments on the side. World-weariness and cynicism are neither wisdom nor experience, even if they do result in picturesque castles and darn good cheese.
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