unsupervised Wrote:I see I may have been to hasty in describing it as uniquely American and a sources of weakness.
But we often see the underlaying plot line.... loner-boy is unbeatable, boy meets girl, girl is kidnapped, boy has to rescue girl, etc etc. sure, there is usually a happy ending but can anyone deny that the formula is tiresome?
As a RJ fan, I know the story is more complex. As a man that knows what it's like to be ungrounded, I know that life is more complex. Maybe I'm just jaded by the mandatory love-interest that Hollywood tosses to us, over and over.
Or maybe the thought of someone using my loved-ones in a leverage game against me is just too unsettling
The thought of someone using my loved-ones in a leverage game against me would make me go just a little bit more postal than Jack did in
All the Rage. There aren't that many of them (and sorry, but none of them are close relatives -- folks can threaten my blood-kin all they want, it won't get a rise out of me). There are only two living people on this planet that I would live or die for, they and maybe four others that I would die for [the maybe is because you don't really know until TSHTF, and circumstances concerning the first two would take priority]).
Yeah, I've spent some fair amount of time ungrounded. The few who ground me are sacred.