Neo-Luddite

job interviewer: would you be willing to destroy and betray yourself for nothing?

Gran Torino and this "last stand of goodness" is catnip for baby boomers who don't want to admit they've fucked up in their lives. You don't really see it in the generation as a whole but the vindictive and spiteful old farts love that movie like it's heroin. It's this perverse justification for how they've ended up as the "last sane people" in a suburb they hate. They love this mythic hatred of something else and they relish anything that lets them stay in the delusions. Everyone in their town hates them, everything around them is collapsing and they have a gun and they and only they can fix everything. Which means they're not gonna do anything helpful, call noise complaints on everything around them and fire "warning shots" at you when you skateboard or do anything outside. That's "preserving the natural order" for you, punk. Now watch 'em misquote Dirty Harry and waddle back inside their plastic sided rancher so they can swap Depends.