Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "Captain America Actor Hates America" video.

  1. I don't know how popular an idea it is, but being born and raised in the US, a message we get over time is how FORTUNATE we are to have been born here, and we have an obligation to help others with that...I hate to call it privilege, but more like passing on good fortune. Call it "American Guilt". And it can be a problem, see some of our global interventions. There's helping, which is good, then there's overhelping people aren't asking for, and that can be bad. The idea I've tried to live by is "If I was this other person, what would I want me to do for them?" Then I do that. We're all people, it's usually not too hard to figure out. I've had a lot of experiences with people from all over the world and the biggest lesson is how similar we are as people, not how different we are.
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  2. The whole point of Captain America was to embody an aspirational ideal of America as a place/people of honor, dignity, integrity, trust, and dependability. He's the Boy Scout that's literally BETTER THAN YOU, that you should look up to and want to emulate. This is all part of what Adam Carolla talked about growing up, his dad pointing to the wealthy man in town driving a nice car and said "see that, if you work hard and do the right thing, you have the opportunity to be like him", and somewhere that turned into "Hey, see that rich d-bag driving that nice car, put a rock through his window because f him".
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