The American Beauty reference doesn't really matter. I'm american, so 'entertainment' kind of rolls off my tounge more naturally than the Frenchman's 'amusement' which reminds ME of pinball or bowling or masterbation. Ce la mot. I think what i said was, people without a knowledge of the past are condemned to repeat it and think they're doing something new. THAT is liberation.
Ignorance is bondage.
Then UNlearning starts to happen when you get so sick of taking out the fucking garbage that you start to generate less of it. All the time knowing that there is still this huge garbage dump where it all goes and we have to deal with THAT at some point, too.