Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's property. A simple commandment has not been more drastically disobeyed than here in the United States. The United States of America, after its years of forced labor, pains of global warfare and serious of contractions of the American people, birthed the spawn of death to this nation's values: Consumerism. At its full adulthood in the 1960’s this Gahimeth of Greed and Self-interest,makes all the nation succumb and bow to this figures Idol. But three wise men of the people,Frank Capra, David Fincher, and Morris Berman, in a mighty display of insurgency, bring forth three gifts to this abomination known as Consumerism. Frank Capra brings forth a people's capitalism as the Golden Ideal of American culture
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His speech to the fight club shows the new America that follows the baby boomers. “ God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." (Fight Club Hour 1) Tyler in this speech and many other speeches attacks the institutions of control that have been manipulated to render man into alienated labor. He attacks the advertising agency, that entices us of a form of commodity fetishism: or as the film calls it “ Ikea nesting instinct.” Fincher argues this demonstrates a frank dissatisfaction of the America they inherent, with its false pretext of the American dream, But argues for a more carnal and hedonistic approach to life. Forgetting the common interest of others and focuses on the pursuit of absolute freedom. This America and Frank Capra’s America places the two facets of American Doctrine as …show more content…
“ Self-Interest they argued, would work to promote the common good, and should be made the foundation of civil society.” ( Why America Failed, Location 2667). One can easily cling to every word of his book with grand admiration because every chapter is compacted of a clear concise canon of different authors’ analysis of the American from its conception of ideals, to its final spawn of greed. A sample can be found in this quote “ As many observers of the American scene have pointed out over the centuries...Alexis de Tocqueville repeatedly describes...James Fenimore Cooper portrayed this in his novels...Author Francis Grund...wrote that ” (Why America Failed, Location 3294) Morris uses all these means and their analysis of how in the end America Failed, due to its desire for “unlimited expansion” and how it “proved to be a poor substitute for actually having a commonwealth” Ultimately Morris Berman is saying that the America that was conceived placed the ideals of commonwealth and community on its lips, but at its heart was nothing more than the desires of personal gain. This, in turn, was the result of why America came to
His speech to the fight club shows the new America that follows the baby boomers. “ God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." (Fight Club Hour 1) Tyler in this speech and many other speeches attacks the institutions of control that have been manipulated to render man into alienated labor. He attacks the advertising agency, that entices us of a form of commodity fetishism: or as the film calls it “ Ikea nesting instinct.” Fincher argues this demonstrates a frank dissatisfaction of the America they inherent, with its false pretext of the American dream, But argues for a more carnal and hedonistic approach to life. Forgetting the common interest of others and focuses on the pursuit of absolute freedom. This America and Frank Capra’s America places the two facets of American Doctrine as …show more content…
“ Self-Interest they argued, would work to promote the common good, and should be made the foundation of civil society.” ( Why America Failed, Location 2667). One can easily cling to every word of his book with grand admiration because every chapter is compacted of a clear concise canon of different authors’ analysis of the American from its conception of ideals, to its final spawn of greed. A sample can be found in this quote “ As many observers of the American scene have pointed out over the centuries...Alexis de Tocqueville repeatedly describes...James Fenimore Cooper portrayed this in his novels...Author Francis Grund...wrote that ” (Why America Failed, Location 3294) Morris uses all these means and their analysis of how in the end America Failed, due to its desire for “unlimited expansion” and how it “proved to be a poor substitute for actually having a commonwealth” Ultimately Morris Berman is saying that the America that was conceived placed the ideals of commonwealth and community on its lips, but at its heart was nothing more than the desires of personal gain. This, in turn, was the result of why America came to