Salon has a piece about "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (HBO Sundays at 9:30 p.m.),
Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | Everyman -- or annoying man?
I don't watch TV anymore, and I had never even seen the series, but the attitude sounds familiar.
"America is probably the most full-of-crap country on the globe, but the consensus here is that lying and sugarcoating everything keeps us on everybody's good side-- oh, except for the European Union, but they're just jealous, right? We're told that people who speak their minds like, say, Yoko Ono or Denis Leary or Ralph Nader, are slightly unsavory and will only screw things up and rob the rest of us of the good life we're entitled to. Plus, they usually smell funny and have lint on their sweaters. " according to salon.
That definitely sounds familiar.
Posted by mduvekot at February 14, 2004 11:17 PM