The most enjoyable thing about being a human being/an animated and thinking creature/conscious creature, is the pleasure of learning new things everyday.
I’m on a plane heading to Beijing, and I just pulled out my laptop after two Caesars and a personal sized bottle of wine, while watching the new HBO series Boardwalk Empire [episode two season one.] I love Steve Buscemi:). He is the ultimate mainstream symbol of an indie actor.
The mix of drinks, altitude and Steve Buscemi inspired me to think about the American obsession with the Prohibition era. This obsession, based on this really short era, is so foggy and dark, yet America remembers this time as a very defining period in its history, and this obsession brings forth a confusion to what exactly prohibition stood for.
This is the time of suffrage, and the beginning of fundamental feminism. Those that have studied this period in school would say, that one of the causes for its existence is the after work special of spousal abuse fuelled by intoxication; but there is a lot more to its establishment than the mixture of feminism and the protestant right. This was the time of mafia pushing its code into law, and performers of colour who would have been previously shunned from the spotlight coming into the foreground, and defining the night club culture. This was the underdog rebellion against the conservative principals of the great so called liberal immigrant haven called America. This was an internal American revolution, from which strong personalities were formed, and America started voting democrat.
I don’t need to make this into an essay, and give you examples for my reasoning, but I believe that the world becomes a better place as we move further away from Judea-Christian moral values, and just consider the common sense; and that’s what the prohibition era taught us. Now its time for more drinking as I’m getting closer to 30 [years old] on a transcontinental flight.
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