Roger from Oklahoma - Reality
Dear America,
I read many of these letters to America but they are really not addressed to America. They are addressed to the writer's concept and visions of America, a phantasm created by their own cultures media, American TV and movies, and their own personal experiences.
I live in America. People in America don’t consume energy at three times the rate of a European. People don’t go and buy buy buy. People don’t live in houses like those in American TV. They don’t have police stations in America like in CSI. People in America do not act like the Americans in TV shows. New York has almost nothing to do with the rest of the United States.
People in America do worry about money. They scrimp on gasoline. They pay enormous taxes to live in a house. They shop on craig's list. Many people have never been on an airplane. They have never traveled more than 500 miles from their houses. Many who live west of the Mississippi have never been east of the Mississippi. Many people in the South have never been in NY. People in Iowa dream of visiting San Francisco.
People in America are consumed by the work of daily life. They say live and let live, but dont impose your religion or morality or way of life on us. And "your" could be the morality and religion of Washington, or Paris, or Oslo, or Mogadishu.
People in America are puzzled by TV news which tries to lie to them by presenting versions of reality rather than news, to once great papers like the New York Times which seem to be run by college dropouts from Soviet Union think tanks, by fanatics like Al Gore or David Dukes.
People in America see danger around the world stemming not from armies massing in distant countries, but my a politicization of false beliefs held by people both within and without her borders.
About the Author:
Name: Roger Hornbeck
Age: 47
Country: United States
City: Tulsa
State: Oklahoma
Gender: Male
Income: Medium
Occupation: Retired
Experience With US: Currently Live in the United States
I read many of these letters to America but they are really not addressed to America. They are addressed to the writer's concept and visions of America, a phantasm created by their own cultures media, American TV and movies, and their own personal experiences.
I live in America. People in America don’t consume energy at three times the rate of a European. People don’t go and buy buy buy. People don’t live in houses like those in American TV. They don’t have police stations in America like in CSI. People in America do not act like the Americans in TV shows. New York has almost nothing to do with the rest of the United States.
People in America do worry about money. They scrimp on gasoline. They pay enormous taxes to live in a house. They shop on craig's list. Many people have never been on an airplane. They have never traveled more than 500 miles from their houses. Many who live west of the Mississippi have never been east of the Mississippi. Many people in the South have never been in NY. People in Iowa dream of visiting San Francisco.
People in America are consumed by the work of daily life. They say live and let live, but dont impose your religion or morality or way of life on us. And "your" could be the morality and religion of Washington, or Paris, or Oslo, or Mogadishu.
People in America are puzzled by TV news which tries to lie to them by presenting versions of reality rather than news, to once great papers like the New York Times which seem to be run by college dropouts from Soviet Union think tanks, by fanatics like Al Gore or David Dukes.
People in America see danger around the world stemming not from armies massing in distant countries, but my a politicization of false beliefs held by people both within and without her borders.
About the Author:
Name: Roger Hornbeck
Age: 47
Country: United States
City: Tulsa
State: Oklahoma
Gender: Male
Income: Medium
Occupation: Retired
Experience With US: Currently Live in the United States
Labels: 40's, consumerism, foreign policy, male, media, medium income, morality, oklahoma, retired
