This video was brought to my attention about a month or so ago, but I never got around to watching it. Within the last week I haven't been able to avoid it. The people that showed it to me were Spanish. Initially they were laughing, but by the end everyone one of them was staring at me. One finally asked, "Es una broma? No es serio, no es posible."
Initially when I watched it, I laughed too. "He doesn't know where the Berlin Wall is, ha ha ha" "She doesn't think a triangle has any sides, ha ha ha." “He thinks Yugoslavia starts with a U, ha ha ha.”
It's what comes towards the end when I stopped laughing and started ducking my head in shame. The moment when the newscaster swings through Texas and asks people ridiculously irrelevant questions about fictitious scenarios, to which they all agree that if the President is behind it, then so are they. The agony increases as one man while looking at a map of the world incorrectly marks Australia as North Korea, while strategically plotting the next country to invade, and then marvels at how much bigger it is than South Korea (Tasmania). It spins into what one hopes is a parody of ignorance. Alas, no such luck.
Enjoy…by the way its about 9 minutes long, so you might want to put the popcorn on first.
Oh yeah, one last thing...to friends and family in Iowa, this is an example of why you need to get out and caucus on January 3rd. These people vote and they have a tendency to put like-minded individuals in positions of power.
1 comment:
Quite enlightening.
Maybe you should return to teach
geography and ethics, as that seems
to be lacking in the current curriculum.
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