Re: pathetic aseem
by AK on Dec 27, 2014 01:27 PM
The problem is you see only what you want to see. During Kamal's movie ban, there were many articles supporting him. Anyway, this article is so childish and confused.
Hollywood is one of the most powerful propaganda machine of US..they don't demonize stick praying folks in beeble belt in US..you are just a victim of Stockholm syndrome. Get a shrink help..
Re: Aseem ji
by AK on Dec 27, 2014 12:22 PM
True. I am still waiting for a hollywood film that shows Russians to be intelligent and good. But when it comes to issues within US, which does not involve any international issues, the society and the govts are largely tolerant.
Hollywood is one of the most powerful propaganda machine of US..they don't demonize stick praying folks in beeble belt in US..you are just a victim of Stockholm syndrome. Get a shrink help..
Why do you have such mismatch title and content, after reading the article I am confused whether you want Indian to Grow up or Americans to change ( and get used to Metal Detectors ).
On America, we likes the free and open argument about what is good or bad for society, and none of the secrecy and hatred, militancy that's part of communist government. we also sees the focus on individual freedom as creating its leadership in innovation. Other parts are totally unacceptable - guns, drugs, violent crime, vagrancy, unbecoming behavior in public, symptoms of the breakdown of civil society. Freedom to have maximum enjoyment of one's freedoms can only exist in an ordered state - not contention and anarchy.
America has a vicious drug problem. To solve it, it goes around the world helping other anti-narcotic agencies try and stop the suppliers. And when provoked, its captures the president of Panama and puts him on trial.
Re: America
by sridhar nanagiri on Dec 25, 2014 12:38 PM
If we did not have the good points of the West to guide us, we wouldn't have gotten out of our backwardness. But we don't want all of the West. Lee also says he admired America more 25 years ago. Liberal, intellectual thinking after WWII supported everyone being allowed to do their own thing. There is such a thing as evil, and it is not the result of being a victim of society. Westerners have abandoned an ethical basis for society, believing that all problems are solvable by a good government - we in the East never believed that. He's concerned about the focus on individual rights, not paired with individual responsibility, in America, that sociologists have convinced Americans that failure isn't their fault but that of the economic system, that charity has become an entitlement without any stigma, and the growth of entitle costs creating huge debts for future generations.
In the East, the government does not try to provide for a person what the family best provides. In the West, government has become seen as able to fulfill those obligations - eg. provide the support to make up for the absent father. A Chinese aphorism is appropriate - 'Look after yourself, cultivate yourself, do everything to make yourself useful, look after your country.' We start with self-reliance, in the West today it is the opposite.
Re: Re: America
by sridhar nanagiri on Dec 25, 2014 12:48 PM
In short America is a disorder society which has highest divorce rate in the world, viscous drugs problem, highest crime all because of movies and social disorder.
In east we take good part of usa, ignore bad except the elites of mumbai and delhi. they take full part of west including sunny leone and yo yo honey singh compare to china, singapore taiwan, korea who keep their culture and taking economic dynamism of west
...with Aseem Chhabra. Indians need to really grow up. They must learn to take novels like "Satanic Verses" and movies like the not-too-long ago Kamal Hasan flick (what was its name?) or "The Da Vinci Code" in the right spirit, and "move on" in life. After all, if 'Indians' don't like Satanic Verses, they "always have the option to skip it", don't they. I therefore, call upon the writer to extend his wonderful advice to all Indians.
Re: I agree...
by AK on Dec 27, 2014 12:25 PM
And what makes you think that itsnt directed at all the Indians? Its high time the "sentimental hurt' clause is removed from the IPC.
The argument is nonsense. The movie which Aseem says makes fun of North Korea. Americans or Europeans never make fun of Christianity. If any movie makes fun of Pakistan, people will readily accept. There are so many Hindi movies which Muslims get offended by such as Kamal Hassan's movie.
Re: Growing up
by AK on Dec 27, 2014 02:12 PM
"Americans and Europeans dont make fun of Christianity"??? Really? No one makes as much fun of Christianity as Europeans and Americans.
