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I remember it was posted here a while back, and I think my response is still what it was back then - that misleading vivedness remains a fallacy. I knew long before this film that it would be possible to find an hour or two of footage of Indians behaving disgustingly. I am pretty sure that's true for every nationality on Earth. So in that sense the film offers no new information at all and I should not update based on it.
I'm not sure you're going to find may vids of Americans eating cow dung...maybe as a rare college prank?
I think the question "is it true for every nationality on Earth," is sort of the point. I'm less certain it is. I think India has special characteristics like, 1.2 billion people with an even larger gap in wealth than anywhere in the West. This opens the door for a broader range of pathological behavior--so in that sense, maybe if we all had a massive underclass we'd be eating poop too?
I think "should I update" is precisely the question. I wouldn't say I've got a high opinion of India, more true to say I think of it very little. But if India isn't "the Worst Country on earth" what is? Kulak sort of defends Africa as equally as poor but not as environmentally degraded or mad.
Anyway, I think there's definitely some bullshit racism going on in this video/review but there also is an important question about what elevates humanity vs. the depths to which we might sink: Eloi vs. Morlocks. For me it raises a longstanding and fundamental concern about the overwhelming power of human depravity, something I've worried about since I was a kid and 2 Live Crew was the hot thing.
The equivalent looney religious person comparison would be the subset of American Pentecostals waving around venomous snakes while speaking in tongues.
"This is what Americans think church is‽" Nope. Just a fringe few who we also think are wacky. But there's hundreds of millions of us, so there's plenty of wacky to fill a documentary of cherry picked crazed Americans.
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