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Anyone see that show on HBO on children of the ultra wealthy. Lord, I was riveted to the tube. It started out talking about how the director/narrator found it to be a controversial subject and that it was difficult to find people to share the inside scoop. Well, after watching that program I know EXACTLY why they had a hard time finding volunteers.I found it absolutely revolting how self satisfied and self indulgent most of them were. There were exceptions, including the narrator - an heir to the Johnson and Johnson fortune. Also the kid who's uncle took him on a tour of NYC and casually informed him while looking at Grand Central Station that,"Oh by the way,you own this" - was actually a decent human being. And maybe one or two others were OK. But man, were the rest of them miserable excuses for human beings. It was really very disturbing how insulated they all were from normal experience and feelings of empathy for people in dire straights. They actually seemed to have less feeling for the unfortunates in our society than many of us would feel for a bug crossing the sidewalk. It was mindblowing.
Check it out. By the end of the program if you have the SLIGHTEST feeling that the USA really isn't a complete democracy you'll be RUNNING to change your registration from Republican to Democrat or Independent. That's with no mention whatsoever of politics within the program. It least that's how it affected me. Its that powerful.
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wherein Trump's daughter related a story about coming out of Trump Tower with here father, and seeing a homeless man crashed out in front, and Donald saying, "That guy is 87 billion dollars richer than me," because at the time he was that deeply in debt.And Ms. Trump went on to say that, thinking about the statement years later, she really admired her parents for coming out of that situation--meaning the situation of being in debt, and not the situation of being horribly self-involved people.
That was downright chilling. I wanted to see the show when I first heard about it, but I think I got the point from that segment.
i'd heard about this documentary and would like to see it. i think you should step back a minute and think about how much of the rest of the world feels about joe average in the u.s.a. we are a damn wealthy country compared to the rest of the world.
Yeah, you're probably right. My reaction to some of the characters there are probably similar to inhabitants of the world's vision of the average U.S. citizen. In both cases they are over generalizations and stereotypes. But stereotypes that persist do so because of the hint of truth.I probably overreacted but I ended up with a visceral hate for the attitudes of a few of those people in the film - and they weren't all Americans. So much for stereotypes. Its just scary to me to think of people like that growing up to be adults with real power - and they will unfortunately.
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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