A recurring question that keeps bothering me is, "why do people do things that they know are wrong?" I've exhausted this question in my own head and on various pages in my diary-- no answers, though. And here's what really gets me: I do it, too.
What brings this question up again is Indiana Jones. He was mentioned accidentally when Lucy's roommate was trying recall the action hero that Angelina Jolie played a while ago.
Indiana Jones' theme song was the jingle that played when someone would call my composition teacher's cell phone. This bothered me for on real reason: this particular teacher quickly dissected the plot of Indiana Jones to expose its implications as being very, well, fucked up-- the way Forrest Gump isn't quite as innocent as one might suspect. I saw Indiana Jones once and I was in... 6th grade? It was around the night that the White Sox and Tigers got into a huge, bench-clearing brawl... April 28th, 2000 sounds about right. I've lived ten years, enjoyed countless beers and blunts, and have seen several movies that I enjoyed more, so my memory of the plot and specific scenes is very unreliable. From my professor's rant, the movie depicts the people of India as being helpless when not under British control and, generally, a savage people. His whole telling of the story cast a very negative light on the now classic film, yet he still saw it fit to include the theme song in his daily life. His reasoning was that he liked "to wake up to adventure." That's all good and well, but other adventurous songs have been written. Furthermore, if you're aware that something is morally bankrupt, why would you support it?
I was thinking along terms of WalMart, but that whole system is fucked. If I'm in a small town and I'm not making enough money to feed my kids, I'm sure I'd cut corners and shop at WalMart occasionally, no matter how much I would hate myself for doing so.
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