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...Kaufman reserved his passive aggression for audiences, who because they were audiences were already primed for a performance of some kind, even if they didn't always get the joke. Baron Cohen takes his act out into the wider world, all for the fun of proving what fools these mortals be. That includes the mortals called Ali G, Borat and Brüno - Baron Cohen's comic characters are as dumb and deplorable as the people they mock. Ali G is a self-deluding white guy who yearns to be a black rapper. Borat is a rube and an anti...
...where some people got a bit sniffy. Both characters are too famous now for Baron Cohen to use them anymore as a lure for the unsuspecting. Before the summer is out, Brüno will be too. So this may be the last film of this strange and brilliant kind that Baron Cohen can make for a while, maybe forever. Even Ron Paul wouldn't fall for Brüno anymore. But chances are you will, and hard...
Those with low self-esteem - precisely the kind of people who do not respond well to positive feedback but tend to read self-help books or attend therapy sessions encouraging positive thinking - didn't feel better after those 16 bursts of self-affirmation. In fact, their self-evaluations and moods were significantly more negative than those of the people not asked to remind themselves of their lovability. (See pictures of couples in love...
...good job of finding their way and using landmarks. At some point, my students and I had the idea of trying to do some similar experiments with human beings. Compared to any animal that I've ever studied or read about, I would say that the average urban person kind of wanders around in a semi-lost state. In traditional way-finding cultures like the Inuit in the Arctic or the Australian Aborigines, getting lost meant losing your life. And that's usually not the case with us. (Read "A Brief History...
What's interesting is that those two different kinds of strategies can either work well or less well depending on where it is that you're trying to navigate. There are some situations in which trying to navigate using the cardinal directions is dooming yourself - [think of] cities with a very kind of organic layout like London or Paris. But contrast that with a grid city like Manhattan, where cardinal directions might make much more sense...