This Interview thing sure brought out our Inner-Jingo

[whatchamacallit]

Never takes much tho. Nobody tells 'mericans who they can insult, mock, torture, assassinate...

[dawg]

1. I don't want my own President to tell me what I can and cannot watch ...

much less some idiot overseas dictator. I'll proudly fly my jingoistic flag on this one, stupid movie or not.

[sabrina 1]

9. Grown up, intelligent human beings do not need to be told what is worthy of

the risk of causing some harm to anyone, and what is not.

I don't need our President or anyone else's to tell me that making a stupid, ridiculous, childish excuse for comedy, is the last thing I would want to waste time on.

But we do have a large contingency of extremely moronic people with money in this country. Which only goes to show that money doesn't equal intellect.

Watch it, don't watch it, who cares. I would prefer to watch water boiling myself and it has nothing to do with anyone telling me what to do.

Our culture seems to be deteriorating even rapidly than anticipated.

Elevating the discourse seems to be some kind of crime in our current culture. Hopefully we are just going through a phase.

[jberryhill]

16. "I would prefer to watch water boiling myself"

Ouch. Put that on YouTube.

[bemildred]

29. +1. nt

[Sunlei]

2. one thing you can be sure of this movie will never be seen in NK, SK or China-

These kind of movies are against the law there.

[LiberalElite]

17. About South Korea:

http://www.live5news.com/story/27706216/south-korea-reacts-to-the-interview


They can see it.

[Sunlei]

18. wow it screens in SK, I didn't realize they're that progressive with media. No wonder NK is so upset

Things get 'shared' between NK/SK

[LiberalElite]

22. It's not being shown in theaters -

they have to see it on line. But they can see it unlike in NK where they can't see anything and get death penalty for watching SK soap operas.

[OnyxCollie]

3. Yeah! We should assassinate Kim Jong Un on principle alone!

And take over their Internet, too!

U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!

The cultural attenuation associated with the mass manifests itself in a peculiar relation of the individual to major cultural symbols. On the one hand, he is only weakly affected by them; he does not reflect their pervasive influence in his habitual conduct. At the same time, however, he may develop a compulsive attachment to the symbols as such -not to their meaning- and to their institutional embodiments, especially if these attachments offer leverage for aggression. Thus it would be characteristic of the mass man to be only poorly influenced by the complex meaning of democracy, unable to make the necessary discriminations, with little conception of how to fulfil the value in his daily life; and yet he may be easily susceptible to manipulation by wielders of this symbol, will swear allegiance to it, and will be prepared to use any means (including those ordinarily interdicted by democratic principles) against its purported enemies. Similarly, mass elements in a church may have little understanding of basic religious principles and reflect nothing of them in their own conduct, yet they will characteristically respond with special fervor to the symbols of the church and be its most aggressive defenders. This ambiguous participation, both in symbolic and in institutional behavior, is fundamental to the mass.

Selznick, P. (1951, January). Institutional vulnerability in mass society. American Journal of Sociology, 56(4), p. 328.

[whatchamacallit]

4. See that dynamic often

even here :/

[OnyxCollie]

5. There's no entry fee to the Big Tent

but you've got to get past the velvet ropes and stanchions to enter the Champagne Room.

[Sunlei]

19. It really is USA!USA!USA! best at free movie publicity

China controls NK internet and perhaps our 'USA in SK' has an ear in NK internet access too.

[Rex]

6. America! Fuck ya!

Freedom is the only way!

[unrepentant progress]

7. Peace on Earth, goodwill to men

Let's celebrate with a fun family movie about killing someone.

[ellenrr]

8. yeah.. what if North Korea had made a movie about assassinating the American president? nt

[NYC Liberal]

11. They HAVE made movies about nuking the US.

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. And the Taliban have tortured Americans. Does that make Americans doing it okay?

[NYC Liberal]

15. Physically torturing people vs dumb movies. Exactly the same thing. Right.

Besides, the poster to whom I was responding asked, what if North Korea made a similar movie? The answer is they did and we just laughed...or didn't react at all.

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. No, more like "well they did it, so it's okay" is not really a good excuse for bad behaviour.

[NYC Liberal]

27. Only if you consider it "bad behavior". I don't consider their movies or ours to be "bad behavior".

[Spider Jerusalem]

28. You have an odd idea of bad behaviour then

it seems to me that a film depicting the assassination of a sitting head of state is something that's pretty much guaranteed to cause a diplomatic incident, at best.

[CBGLuthier]

10. I have 78 hours left in America. Really enjoyed how foolish so many were over this shitty

little movie and this tussle between half of Korea and a Japanese corporation become an AMERICAN issue. Self-centered does not even begin to describe Americans.

[NYC Liberal]

12. Sony Pictures Entertainment is an American subsidiary.

Threats weren't issued against Japanese or Korean theaters; they were targeted at AMERICAN theaters.

That's how it became an "AMERICAN issue".

[Sunlei]

23. please don't blame Americans, we have no control over our 'media'

by the way enjoyed your youtube channel. I like this one.

Have you considered game theme music? one of my favorites is everquest music, everquest, and EQ2 lots of theme music in that game.

[VScott]

13. I remember when the Kazakhstan government was livid over "Borat"

because of the way their country was portrayed.

They changed their tune slightly when tourism increased.

[RandiFan1290]

21. Wolverines!11!!11

[Ykcutnek]

24. Good. nt

[951-Riverside]

25. For a moment last week I thought we were going to start building interment camps...

and start shoving Korean-Americans in there.

The mindless blind "patriotism" was off the charts across the internet and even here. Its sad to see that the post 9/11 mindset still exists.



"I don't care 'bout no evidence, forensics or asking questions! We was a-tacked by them there norks so we gotta go war with them to show 'em who is boss fer 'merica! Durrr!!!!"

[Blue Owl]

26. Jingo bells, jingo bells...