>>>>I assign absolutely no blame on the girl. She was raised on that. I'm ranting against whoever proscribed her diet. She can't have seen what was never shown to her.
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>>>Ok, I'll bite. How is her affection for an old TV show and old movies a flaw in her upbrining? Oh, and be careful, I love the old movies too.
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>>So, what do you think of Vera Chytilova, Zeman, [unspellable] Trnka and the rest of that school? No cheating - no Google, no Wikipedia. You probably know only one guy from that school, and that starts with him coming to Hollywood.
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>Never heard of them, and don't feel the least bit deprived. See, the thing is that I most enjoyed watching movies in which I could follow the dialog without having to read subtitles.

But had the movies been dubbed I'd never get Bogart's half-lisp. It wouldn't hurt at all, of course, because I'd never know what I'd be missing. Actually, I think most of the world should stop watching foreign movies altogether - forcing half the globe to read so fast isn't really nice :).

>>OK, let's turn it the other way around. What do you think would have become of me if I was happily isolated [snip]

>You probably would have grown up not much caring about it. At least you would have been less likely to harangue everyone else just because they enjoy things that you feel may be less worthy than other things. Maybe I missed some good movies in languages I can't understand, but since I thoroughly enjoyed the movies I grew up watching on late night TV, as I said, I don't feel deprived. What is life about if not finding ways to enjoy ones self. You enjoy what you enjoy, and I enjoy what I enjoy, and the fact that you feel I've been deprived doesn't make it necessarily a cosmic truth.

Are you really so eager to prove my point?

If it's all about enjoying oneself, I'd probably had all the fun I ever wanted by now, and would then have nothing left but to arrange acute lead poisoning to escape boredom.

But what if more joy comes from getting to know things you didn't know? Seeing the whole Earth and all its different people, and at that not necessarily limit myself to those who speak my language, what then? I guess I'd better get into traveling if I was born here, for there's much more outside this tower that you'll never see on the pewter screen.