The Sadness of America

[John Doe]

Yeah,lol!..I gotta say, coming from the same country (
albeit as a very young child ) that the late director
Krzystof Kieslowski came from, perhaps there IS an
element of Weltzsmerz or European malaise that is just
not exhibited in Calvinist, Protestant Pioneer-Spirit
American sensibility...lol...hard to say... but
someone should look into it....when I see a film by
KK, it resonates for me with certian familiar ...oh,
call them mood-washes...overtones of a despair that
"brand" this or that work as certainly of European
provenance rather than domestic....or maybe I'm jus'
blowin' in the wind....

--- Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> Indeed. The sadness of America may have to do with
> "changing all from 
> subjunctive to declarative, reducing Possibilities
> to Simplicities that 
> serve the ends of Governments". Or the ends of
> multinational 
> corporations, one might add.
> 
> On a different note: According to my experiences,
> most US-citizens, for 
> better or worse, are not capable of perceiving
> "God's own country" as 
> sad. Perhaps sadness and melancholy are sentiments
> we Europeans bring to 
> America. Just a thought.
> 
> Thanks for your posting, Heikki.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> Heikki Raudaskoski schrieb:
> 
> >One reason I loved America when I lived there was
> that it
> >was so immensely sad. When I left my Austinite home
> on
> >Joe Sayers and was suddenly confronted by the
> miracle mile
> >of Burnet Road, the melancholy of it all almost
> crushed me
> >sometimes. Pynchon can convey this sorrow very
> well.
> >
> >
> >Heikki
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 



	
		
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