This book unleashes years of frustration stemming from the ostensible and sheer ignorance of Americans concerning not only the outside world, but even matters apposite to their immediate vicinity. I have lived in Tallahassee, Boston, Miami, and College Station. There has been a common thread pervasive in all of these living experiences: the exposure to an increasingly decadent, desultory and vapid American culture. In geography, the concept is called "placelessness." Apparently it seems like a felicitous word to describe the blase nature of an American culture that has become enslaved to the…mehr
This book unleashes years of frustration stemming from the ostensible and sheer ignorance of Americans concerning not only the outside world, but even matters apposite to their immediate vicinity. I have lived in Tallahassee, Boston, Miami, and College Station. There has been a common thread pervasive in all of these living experiences: the exposure to an increasingly decadent, desultory and vapid American culture. In geography, the concept is called "placelessness." Apparently it seems like a felicitous word to describe the blase nature of an American culture that has become enslaved to the beer bottle, the "boob tube", the Botox injections, the silicon breast enhancements, the marijuana, cigarette smoking, and an ecumenically gilded culture of scapegraces. So much of American culture is being diluted by adherence to "political correctness" and hackneyed "professional standards." What ever happened to the media serving as the "watchdogs" of government? Now the media is more concerned with actually promoting dogs and dog-like behavior from shallow celebrities. The book attempts to compile the dilapidated schemas, illogical double standards, and slipshod behavior of Americans in a sarcastic (yet humorous) and informative (yet satirical) fashion.
I got my Bachelors in Biology from Florida State University and my Masters in Public Health from Boston University. I have also lived in Miami and currently live in College Station. In terms of my writing acumen, I demonstrated it with a perfect score on the GRE writing section a few years ago. Furthermore, I have a passion for writing about variegated topics such as sports, politics, religion, pop culture, television, and conspiracy theories. I have also written two screenplays who I cannot convince anyone to read without having to pay them hundreds of dollars to bore me with their nondescript analysis and meager understanding of what actually transpired in my screenplay. I take pride in being a convoluted person to understand. The best decision I made in college was not becoming an English major because I did not feel like letting the dogma of a gilded, hackneyed literature and PC-based university education strip me of all my creative faculties. The worst decision I made was becoming a biology major and studying something I hate. Now I really love this book because it unlocks every corner of my persona and speaks to my multitudinous interest. It is one place where I feel comfortable with cutting myself loose. I believe in being versatile and not succumbing to convention or dogma. When your life is too structured, it ceases to become your life. It transforms into someone else's life- someone who you fail to recognize and someone whom you cannot relate. That's how I felt before writing this book. I felt like I was just living a perfunctory life devoid of purpose. This book has given me a purpose, given me a voice, and most of all, given me a reason to be passionate about my secular life. I have never found that burning passion in any of my studies, but now I have a burning passion to study life through the binoculars of not only this book, but writing in general.
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