Matt Damon: Our problem is civil obedience

Things are not so bad. They're not even just bad. Name a time and place where you'd rather live than today in the western world.

This is blatant pandering of one faux-rebel (who supported the very "wrong people" who are in power today) to other faux-rebels applauding a guy from tv who tells them to not listen to what they hear on tv. It's crazy. Or, it would be crazy if the goal was anything but maintaining speaker's personal popularity.

"If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles." Howard Zinn

Wow. Great piece. Kudos to Matt for reading this. What's best way to carry a message, if not from the lips of a celebrity :)

Matt Damon giving a dramatic reading of Howard Zinn is the archetypical /r/politics story. It has no place here. Flagged.

Matt Damon has itwrong. Servility is bad. Obedience is good.