In my Audio Production course, the first assignment is to write a piece about American Values. Promptly, I asked the professor if I could make it satirical. He said no. So, since then, I’ve just been trying to figure out how I’m to seriously include a set of “Values” that, to me, seem absurd and hypocritical. But thinking further on the topic at hand it dawned on me this morning that the People of the United States have a different set of Values than the U.S. as a nation does. The assignment doesn’t distinguish People from State. I do, though.
My Values are very similar to most other Americans. And, similarly, your Values are. What you envision the end-goal as is very similar to what others envision the end-goal as. For instance: I love peace. I love prosperity. I love fraternity. Define those as you wish. But, is it not evident that people love to live their lives in prosperity associating with whoever they choose, seeking out the peace they desire? I know many of my friends agree to those ends. Do you?
American Values
”If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.”
~B. Lester
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Everything you’ve ever wondered about cholesterol and more, the good and the bad. This is an A+ video produced by Perrin Ireland and written and narrated by Jeanne Garbarino.
The full text of the video is here at Scientific American.
