[ SECRET POST #4147 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4147 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, 1941]


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03.
[Teen Wolf]


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04.
[The Three Investigators]


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05.
[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]


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06.
[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]


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07.
[Silver Bullet]









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Comments

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

You're overlooking the past that way though, which is dangerous, imo. America was settled by Europeans and others because of superior firepower. Outlaws with guns have been romanticized from Jesse James to Bonnie and Clyde to John Gotti. Our history is full of gun massacres and the truly tragic thing is that we have learned nothing and they're still happening to this day.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's sort of 2 different things here. There's a general romanticization of the outlaw and hero worship and of the use of force and things like that. And there's, specifically, a culture of guns and gun violence. And those two things are deeply related and connected on a lot of levels, but they're still separate things - I mean, even people who don't use guns, who don't approve of guns, still fall into the hero-worship traps.

But when it comes to modern American culture, I would argue that the primary influence of things like Wild West outlaws on contemporary American culture is not primarily through / in terms of their use of guns. I guess that's my point.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Outlaws are romanticized, yes. Just like Robin Hood is still a popular legend in Great Britain even though a bow and arrow was his weapon of choice. Like the other anon, I don't think it's necessarily the guns that are the key part of this, it's the fact that they're outlaws... who happen to have guns. Even your own example of Gotti doesn't really support the gun argument. Gotti is known primarily for his position a dapper mob boss, a job which isn't really about using firepower on a regular basis - not the way outlaws of the Wild West or Bonnie and Clyde did. And Bonnie and Clyde weren't romanticized because they used guns, they were romanticized because of their relationship.


Our history is full of gun massacres and the truly tragic thing is that we have learned nothing and they're still happening to this day.

I agree with this part completely.