Michael B. Jordan
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and he's an assassin who kills old people with a mallet.
And yet, when I was reading parts of the book, I was like, but this also feels like real life because it seems like what's happening in the world today.
Is it a metaphor?
And therefore, they engage.
And by engaging, they're not ignorant.
And by not being ignorant, they're not fooled.
And they know who to hold accountable in government.
One thing I would love to know from you, and very few people would ask this question and expect a candid response,
Meeting with the people you've met in the world, do you think that we get the full story of what America's doing in the world and how they are shaping what direction the world is going in, having spoken to some of the people who deal with America from the other side?
Yes, I mean, I think we're at about 28% of the country that has passports.
And then there are various economic reasons why people aren't able to travel.
And without that context, I think we do suffer.
there's the the generally speaking and i've seen a big change there you know when the berlin wall came down i think it had a lot more to do with levi's 501s and and and the dream of wearing them right and the beatles black market records than it did with gorbachev or reagan right it's just human dreaming having a power to make a change the human dreaming so much of it
was to take the American model, the dream that is that.
And beyond that, I would say that the respect and the aspiration
that we modeled is no longer on our country.
That's not a political comment.
That's a touristic comment.
Where I've traveled, it's changed.
And I think we owe it to ourselves to get it back.