I think it's more the chattering class than America, specifically, but to the extent you can make any generalization about any culture, it's a wonderful thing to be in a culture that can be unironically enthusiastic about e.g. work without being subject to scorn for it.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/981341257124397056 …
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Oh I found the commercial (thanks, Youtube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p65btzALVkM … Dialogue: B: "Why did you become a guard?" A: "I wonder why... oh, I wanted as a kid to become [a superhero] and protect the peace... And I suppose I've realized my dream. *smiles*"
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A salutes with a coffee: "Alright, time to save the world." Announcer: "The world is made by ordinary people's work." A: "TRANSFORM!" Woman: [Good evening / thanks for your work on my behalf] A (it's all in the delivery): "Carry on, citizen."
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"That's got to be ironic, Patrick. It's hammy and overacted." No, that's the thing: it's hammy, overacted, and utterly sympathetic to the character. You are supposed to remember being a child, compare your relative lack of idealism to his, and *want to have his.*
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Compare to the audience’s expected reaction here: Hermione: “They’re acting like you’re the chosen one.” Harry: “But Hermione, I am the Chosen One.” Harry is, factually, the Chosen One. Hermione immediately hits him. The audience knows to root for her.
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this sounds like a Boss commercial. my favorites are the ones with tommy lee jones, those are sooo good
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Not a Boss commercial, to the best of my recollection.
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Maybe this is the less powerful tweet in the thread, as America is sorta 10 years ahead on asking genuinely hard ethics-in-tech questions with fairly disengaged political leadership on this front.
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