Watching the Rose Parade I feel like I’m being captivated by the train wreck that is America. The theme in this year of torture, secret prisons, illegal surveilance and the end of habeus corpus is “Our Good Nature.” The opening ceremony featured the B-2 Stealth Bomber! Coupled with the spectacularly, even surreally inept commentary and the rampant jingoism it is hard to look away. The Star Wars spectacular features not the rebels but “the largest gathering of storm troopers ever assembled!” [A reminder that, due to the addition of episodes I-III, the saga now ends with the triumph of the empire and the ascension of Darth Vader.] Ads for reality shows remind us that life is primarily a competition for survival and Americans are divided into winners and losers.
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