Thursday, March 20, 2008

Optimus Sup-Prime


I knew the sub-prime housing thing in the U.S. had had plenty of unfortunate consequences, but I guess I didn't stretch my imagination far enough as the above video caught me off-guard.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This made me think of an article I read recently about the great British actress, Helen Mirren. In accepting her Emmy award for Prime Suspect last September, she glancingly criticized the U.S: "You Americans are wonderfully generous people; you are a lot of other things as well, some good, some bad...." Today she explains what she meant. "I think Americans are a little parochial, a little naive, " she says. "Naivete can be a good thing as well, all that innocence and idealism, not like those cynical Europeans; Oh, it'll never work!' But sometimes Americans show a terrible cruelty toward their own people, like what happened post-Katrina, you know,in the wealthiest country in the world. Which is extraordinary to me."

5:22 pm
Oliver Brackenbury said...

Mmm, that's a good quote. I know that when I see things like this, the whole genre of the post-apocalyptic seems distinctively less appealing since it then seems less distant from the present.

I wonder what any third worlders who live in similar conditions thought when they caught this?

7:37 pm

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