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Happy, uh, Fourth o' July - gailtate - 07-03-2020
With apologies to David Brooks:
"If you don’t breathe the spirit of the nation, if you don’t have a fierce sense of belonging to each other, you’re not going to sacrifice for the common good. We’re confronted with a succession of wicked problems and it turns out we’re not even capable of putting on a friggin’ mask.
"In the days leading up to this July 4 weekend, I’ve been thinking about a scene in “Good Will Hunting.” We’ve seen Will perform all these mathematical feats and flights of verbal brilliance, but the Robin Williams character sits him down on a park bench and confronts him with a rot at the core of his character. 'I look at you; I don’t see an intelligent, confident man; I see a cocky, scared kid.'
"The last three years have been like that Robin Williams speech for a whole nation — an intervention, a truth-telling. I had hopes that the crisis would bring us together, but it’s made everything harder and worse. And now I worry less about populism or radical wokeness than about a pervasive loss of national faith.
"What’s lurking, I hope, somewhere deep down inside is our shared ferocious love for our common country and a vision for the role America could play as the great pluralist beacon of the 21st century. July 4 with be a good day to find that faith."
So it was written, so let it be done.
RE: Happy, uh, Fourth o' July - Mick - 07-04-2020
(07-03-2020, 11:02 AM)gailtate Wrote: With apologies to David Brooks:
"If you don’t breathe the spirit of the nation, if you don’t have a fierce sense of belonging to each other, you’re not going to sacrifice for the common good. We’re confronted with a succession of wicked problems and it turns out we’re not even capable of putting on a friggin’ mask.
"In the days leading up to this July 4 weekend, I’ve been thinking about a scene in “Good Will Hunting.” We’ve seen Will perform all these mathematical feats and flights of verbal brilliance, but the Robin Williams character sits him down on a park bench and confronts him with a rot at the core of his character. 'I look at you; I don’t see an intelligent, confident man; I see a cocky, scared kid.'
"The last three years have been like that Robin Williams speech for a whole nation — an intervention, a truth-telling. I had hopes that the crisis would bring us together, but it’s made everything harder and worse. And now I worry less about populism or radical wokeness than about a pervasive loss of national faith.
"What’s lurking, I hope, somewhere deep down inside is our shared ferocious love for our common country and a vision for the role America could play as the great pluralist beacon of the 21st century. July 4 with be a good day to find that faith."
So it was written, so let it be done.
Good parallel. Here's the scene in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRG2jlQWCsY
I thought the relevant line was "You don't have the faintest idea of what you're talking about" applies to most Americans w/re: to coronavirus.
RE: Happy, uh, Fourth o' July - BostonCard - 07-04-2020
RIP Robin Williams
BC