"The Golden Rule"
Norman Rockwell
America is projecting an ugly attitude to the world that manages to combine both belligerence and fear.
Or maybe that isn't new? People of other countries often view American as arrogant, ego-maniacal, not to mention ignorant and uninterested in cultures other than their own. Along with racism, violence, obesity and over-consumption, these are American stereotypes around the world.
Good old Norman Rockwell, dismissed as a serious artist in his lifetime. His birthday was this week, and I was checking out his paintings for the blog. Many of them are saccharine and overly sentimental, but it's easy to get sucked into nostalgia for simpler times that never existed.
There seems to be a desire now to take America back to those 1950's. Along with the sexism, racism, xenophobia and paranoia that went with that era.
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