How could the land of the free become like a concentration camp, with the military on the streets arresting people because of how they look or speak, with customs police searching into your most intimate vehicle of free speech - your cell phone - to find out if you're loyal to a demented senile dictator?
In many countries around the world, less fortunate and less wealthy than the US, the individual feels genuine unadulterated freedom from
1- a totalitarian government in cahoots with big corporations. Americans have no idea how conformists and compliant they are to the dictates of their government, how much their personal life is programmed by giant entities, and how unfree they really are. They just don't see it, until they leave and look at it from the outside.
2- a culture that tells them what to think, how to think, and a culture of a herd in which each beast is branded and cast. A culture of extreme individualism and the mad obsessive pursuit of money.
The notion of freedom in the US is a made-up fantasy destined to blind the average American to the fact that he/she is a guinea pig in the giant laboratory - known as the US - of big corporations . They tell Americans that the American "way of life" (which condenses into religion, consumption, debt, and the sport of rugby that is ignorantly dubbed 'American football') is the best there is and that all the other cultures are inferior, socialistic, and such other qualifiers destined to instill xenophobia and fear of others.
Many Americans discover the truth of the superficiality of their lives when they travel overseas and discover how genuine and "natural" human relationships are in most other cultures. People are kind because they are kind and can put themselves in other people's shoes. Somehow, Americans are incapable of such compassion. They are told and trained to "smile" and "be positive" regardless of whether they want to smile or whether they feel positive about their lives. We live in a made-up cosmetically fixed "beautiful weather" facade when the reality is that many of us are unhappy and frustrated.
Living in the US always makes people constantly fear sickness and death. The barrage of commercials on television and in the media about the hundreds of new diseases and drugs to combat them is such a gigantic scam whose intent is to drill fear of disease and death, and of course steal people's money. Americans are told to constantly search for "their" disease because we all should have one or two, and then when they find it, to "fight" it and prove their American toughness by winning the battle. Losing to the disease brings shame and guilt on the person.
In other cultures, death is accepted as part of life, and diseases are handled like a simple setback whose outcome could go either way and that's OK. Americans are ultra-religious because they must be immortal in the eyes of their culture. Religion offers the fallacy of immortality after death, but in America we are brainwashed to fight for immortality on this earth and to reject death.
Similarly with money and the insurance industry scams. Americans spend their lives doing acrobatics about their health plans (that change every year), their mortgages (a lifelong debt from which they exit as they near death), and their 401Ks. I used to spend long hours every fall reading the hundreds of pages of my new health insurance plan because the insurer keeps changing them based on the profit or loss it incured the previous year. As a hypothetical example, whereas last year they covered breaks in both the tibia and the femur, this year they cover only breaks in the tibia but not the femur because they made less money covering the latter. So you have to decide each year whether you plan to break both tibia and femur or just one of them, and then which one? Covering both adds to your premium. It's like you are buying your health from a black market snake-oil dealer.
I still love the idea of America but I discovered over the years that it is just an idea, a fantasy. "Il n'y a plus d'Amérique" said the Belgian singer Jacques Brel. Donald Trump has stripped the fake facade of the American Dream and revealed the reality behind it. Maybe it is the silver lining behind his disgusting way of running the country. Maybe after Trump, America will come down from its cheap haughtiness and become a genuinely human society.
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Robin Wright Says Leaving the U.S. for England Has Been 'Liberating': 'America Is a S---show'
"There's a freedom of self here," Wright said of England. "People are so kind. They're living"
Charlotte Phillipp
Mon, September 1, 2025
VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Robin Wright on June 16, 2025.
Robin Wright is opening up about her choice to leave the U.S. and rent a house on the English seaside
"America is a s---show," she said in a new interview with The Times. "There's a freedom of self here. People are so kind. They're living"
The actress also opened up about her new relationship with architect Henry Smith, saying: "He is a sweetheart and just a good, decent adult"
Robin Wright has a new country to call home — and she isn't regretting her decision to move in the slightest.
In a new interview with The Times, published on Sunday, Aug. 31, the actress, 59, shared that she and her boyfriend, architect Henry Smith, are renting a home on the English seaside.
"It’s liberating to be done," Wright told the outlet. "Be done with searching, looking and getting 60 percent of what you wanted."
The House of Cards alum, who was born in Texas and raised in California, was candid about wanting to get out of the U.S., telling the newspaper: "America is a s---show."
"I love being in this country," she added of England. "There's a freedom of self here. People are so kind. They're living. They're not in the car in traffic, panicked on a phone call, eating a sandwich. That's most of America. Everything's rush, competition and speed."
Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Henry Smith and Robin Wright.
According to the Forrest Gump star, her decision to move was partially influenced by the noise of Los Angeles.
"Everyone's building a huge house, and I'm just done with all that — I love the quiet. And I've met my person. Finally," she added, referring to 52-year-old Smith.
Wright recalled meeting her now-boyfriend — and joked that they had some choice words for each other the first time they crossed paths.
According to the model, she was sitting in a pub at the time, and asked a man if she could feed his dog when the man directed his attention to her now-boyfriend.
"He goes, 'No, it’s not my dog, it’s his dog,' " she recalled of their first meeting.
Darren Gerrish/WireImage Getty Robin Wright at Wimbledon on July 13, 2025.
"Henry was standing at the bar, 6'2", and he put his pint down, came over to me and grabbed my shoulders," the Here actress recalled. "He goes, 'Who the f--- are you?' And I said, 'Who the f--- are you?' And that was it."
"He is a sweetheart and just a good, decent adult. He's a man," she continued of Smith.
According to The Times, Wright said it was "so relaxing" to be "seen and loved for who I am" after she began her relationship with Smith.
"That's exactly what I wanted," she shared. "I'm turning 60 and I'm, like, 'Is this it?' I love being alone and I've done that many times. But I'm, like, 'I want to grow old with somebody, and travel and see the world.' "
The Princess Bride actress was previously married to Sean Penn from 1996 to 2010. The former couple share two children: daughter Dylan, 34, and son Hopper, 32.
Wright later wed Clement Giraudet in 2018, before filing for divorce from the fashion executive in the summer of 2022, citing irreconcilable differences. She also had a brief marriage to the late Santa Barbara actor Dane Witherspoon from 1986 until their divorce two years later.
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