I recently saw two films back to back that both reveal how America has gone from a country of confidence, common sense, and humor to one of bitterness, academic theory, and resentment.
Reading Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved, about survivors of the World War II death camps, gave the author Daniel Genis humility: “The fact that much worse than I experienced was suffered by innocent people in The Drowned and the Saved made my flicker of self-pity laughable.”
In the great film Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin has an epic scene in which he tries to motivate a group of salesmen. People “are sitting out there waiting to give you their money,” Baldwin says. “Are you willing to take it? Are you man enough to take it?”
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