If you're selling rank propaganda, don't be boringI also recently endured the movie “Civil War,” which is incomprehensible, except that it appears to be a road trip movie about members of the media heading to Washington to interview a barely disguised stand-in for former President Donald Trump, whose third term appears to have launched the nation into internal warfare. For much of the movie, the road trippers seem surprised that a civil war involves random violence.
That the movie and the book are propaganda as thin as gossamer can be overlooked, but their indifference to facts can’t be. The terrible truth is that the United States is probably better off now — compared with the remainder of the planet if in no other way — than it has been for some time. Pick a metric — the economy, innovation, education, population — and the United States is probably doing better than anyone else out there.survive a war with the United States? Let’s hope we never find out. But the simple reality of war is that the side with the most cash almost always wins.
With respect to the movie, it is difficult to take something like that seriously. The last time an advanced nation went to war with itself was during our own Civil War, and that was characterized by a remarkable degree of civility on both sides. There were few instances of noncombatants being targeted, and the winners didn’t even execute the ringleaders of the other side.The second and perhaps the most egregious problem with both the movie and the novel is that they are relentlessly boring.
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