A Divided America

I am posting today in support of a documentary film.

If you haven’t found hulu.com, you’re missing something pretty good. It allows you to watch TV shows, documentaries, and some movies via streaming high-res video…for free. It intersperses a few ads here and there.

I’ve seen a couple of good films from hulu, but this morning I watched one that is particularly appropriate for this blog. It is called A Divided America, and it outlines the political separation in America between the so-called “red state” vs. “blue state” mentalities.

Please take the time to watch. It is about 80 minutes long, but worth it, in my opinion.

The problems as outlined in the film revolve around our unwillingness to engage in political discourse at any and all levels and what I see as devolution of our lives away from activities where we regularly meet and greet people from different walks of life (like the bowling league in the film) into an increasing polarity in our personal lives where we surround ourselves exclusively with media and people who agree with us in all ways.

Get out of your box and engage people who are different from you.