{"id":26484,"date":"2015-03-25T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26484"},"modified":"2015-03-18T21:08:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T01:08:58","slug":"qotd-gary-oldmans-lack-of-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/03\/25\/qotd-gary-oldmans-lack-of-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Gary Oldman&#8217;s lack of optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>PLAYBOY<\/strong>: What\u2019s your view of the future? Are you optimistic about where society is heading?<\/p>\n<p><strong>OLDMAN<\/strong>: [Pauses] You\u2019re asking Gary?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLAYBOY<\/strong>: Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OLDMAN<\/strong>: I think we\u2019re up shit creek without a paddle or a compass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLAYBOY<\/strong>: How so?<\/p>\n<p><strong>OLDMAN<\/strong>: Culturally, politically, everywhere you look. I look at the world, I look at our leadership and I look at every aspect of our culture and wonder what will make it better. I have no idea. Any night of the week you only need to turn on one of these news channels and watch for half an hour. Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell. I listen to the radio and hear about these lawsuits and about people like this high school volleyball coach who took it upon herself to get two students to go undercover to do a marijuana bust. You\u2019re a fucking volleyball coach! This is not <em>21 Jump Street<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Or these helicopter parents who overschedule their children. There\u2019s never any unsupervised play to develop skills or learn about hierarchy in a group or how to share. The kids honestly believe they are the center of the fucking universe. But then they get out into the real world and it\u2019s like, \u201cShit, maybe it\u2019s not all about me,\u201d and that leads to narcissism, depression and anxiety. These are just tiny examples, grains of sand in a vast desert of what\u2019s fucked-up in our world right now. As for the people who pass for heroes in entertainment today, don\u2019t even get me started. <\/p>\n<p>Gary Oldman, interviewed by David Hochman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playboy.com\/playground\/view\/gary-oldman-playboy-interview\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Playboy Interview: Gary Oldman&#8221;, <em>Playboy<\/em><\/a>, 2014-06-23.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLAYBOY: What\u2019s your view of the future? Are you optimistic about where society is heading? OLDMAN: [Pauses] You\u2019re asking Gary? PLAYBOY: Yes. OLDMAN: I think we\u2019re up shit creek without a paddle or a compass. PLAYBOY: How so? OLDMAN: Culturally, politically, everywhere you look. I look at the world, I look at our leadership and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,41],"tags":[374,375,583,101],"class_list":["post-26484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-quotations","tag-children","tag-parents","tag-pessimism","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Ta","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26485,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26484\/revisions\/26485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}