A long, long time ago --- while I was living in Rome, Italy; I was cast in a "professional" production of the play America Hurrah, by Jean-Claude van Itallie. This play is composed of three shorter plays or acts, all of which, in their own way depict some of the foibles of American society. The play also targets the Catholic Church, the societal hypocrisy of Americans generally, and the mores of the times (the infamous 1960's).
Nowadays, that play (and the texts of Brave New World and 1984 and the movie Network, for that matter) are being played out in the political machinations of Washington D.C., the American press, and American television. We are rapidly becoming, at least in America, the worst internal views of ourselves. We are our own worst selves!
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