While tackling subjects
like white guilt, the national anthem and the righteously religious, he simultaneously skewers his own sense of male entitlement.
Not exact matches
while i can definitely get behind curbing consumption every day, (which,
like you said is the point), i read something recently that made me rethink buy nothing day: http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=4014 it argues that buy nothing day is a day for priviledged
white people to assuage their
guilt about their own over-consumption while simultaneously looking down on lower - income people who may not be able to afford to pass up those black friday doorbusters.
At the risk of further estranging myself from De Palma geeks, I must admit I rather enjoyed watching a Body Double without Armond
White guilt - tripping my subconscious — which is not to say that Looker circumvents an auteurist reading altogether, but the idiosyncrasies that betray it as «Crichtonian» (
like a novelistic conceit that starts off each new act with a placard indicating the day of the week *) are less than venerable and thus hardly lend themselves to an apologia.
white people
like him because they they think it somehow takes care of their
white guilt
This is especially true of countries
like China and India, who have totally different priorities than worrying about a «rich
white man's»
guilt - driven obsession with CO2.
To ease your
guilt I
like the plain
white one.