Burn Them, Justified speech


I always find it interesting when people do long term things out of spite.   I worked with a guy who was born and raised in Philadelphia.  You would think he would have been an Eagles fan.  But no, he was a hardcore Cowboys fan.   Now I dislike the Dallas Cowboys, and I could not understand why anyone in Pennsylvania would like them.  I asked him why he liked the Cryboys, and he had a really good reason.  

It seems his abusive father was a big Eagles fan, and every time the Cowboys were mentioned he would get angry.  So, his son became a Cowboys fan.  

I can appreciate the dedication to spite.  This is a great Hollywood example of that thinking.  

Karl Hanselman:

My father grew up in Germany, in Munich, before the war. He was very poor. He saw the wealthy of his city, and he wanted what they had. 
But there was no way someone like him could ever hope to rise to that… and then along came a very charismatic man who knew who was to blame, and my father followed him.

Publicly, after the war, my father recanted everything the Reich stood for, but he never did in his heart. In private, after some wine, he would say that his years working for Hitler were the best of his life. His proudest achievement was when Hitler selected him to run a team that went through the country, reacquiring the Fuhrer’s old paintings. I hated my father. So, this has been my project. I buy Hitler’s shitty paintings… and I burn them.

Played by the wonderful Robert Picardo.  Who was born in raised in Philadelphia, so he might be an Eagles fan (but hey not everyone is perfect.)

 



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