The Confidence-Man
Covid Con and Statistical Average American
This is America in a nutshell: a continuous cacophony of cons. “As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?” Alexis de Tocqueville
“Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and devilry, in this world. How much money did the devil make by gulling Eve?”
― Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man
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I think all hunger. Hungry Ghosts.
At another more gross level one of the best and most accurate summaries of the adolescent American "character" was/is provided by the movie Beavis and Butthead Do America.
B&B being the archetypal TV "personalities" primarily (and only) obsessed with stuffing things in their mouths, what comes out at the other end.
And of course what to do with their genitals their too. They are of course fundamentally incapable of entering into a loving relationship with a woman
They also systematically trash everything that they come across.