>Frankly, I have a hard time seeing how anyone over 30 could find this piece compelling. It's founded in a childish self-centered view of the world, a self-indu

>Frankly, I have a hard time seeing how anyone over 30 could find this piece compelling. It's founded in a childish self-centered view of the world, a self-indulgent bubble that finally popped for the author, but not until age 30? Meanwhile if you go to rural red state America, the 90% of the country that doesn't live in cities where people can remain proud of the ignorance while also not even being aware of it, will tell you, upon being informed the mixed world opinion of America? You will get variably surprise, denial, and anger. And that's for people over 30. They have no idea what the world thinks, some will deny it and others will scoff why they should care what someone else thinks, they're all stupid socialist countries anyway (and therefore their opinions don't matter, sort of logic). I think you're in deep denial yourself about how deeply ignorant most Americans are by presuming only the young are this ignorant. I'm willing to bet the millennial generation is more well traveled than baby boom generation (I'm X) and most of the ignorant cluelessness about the rest of the world comes from the most clueless waste of space generation in America which is the baby boomers.