News blog: http://blogs.current.com/news/2010/01/06/slackers-in-pakistan/
Good news - it looks like the fears that all young, unemployed in the Muslim world will turn to terrorism might be overblown. Some of them may just well turn to the sort of shiftless slacking we Americans are best known for.
I found this trailer on Gawker, which describes the film thus:
"Slackistan [is] a feature film by British director Hammad Khan. The trailer is above. It's basically Slacker set in Islamabad, following the lives of privileged, bored, Westernized twentysomethings as they assiduously avoid whatever adulthood in Pakistan entails. Khan is a British filmmaker who came up with the idea while visiting friends there, according to the BBC. He hired local unprofessional actors."
(Gawker: http://gawker.com/5441695/how-to-defeat-al-qaeda-no+budget-films-and-7-records)
Gawker's post is titled "How to Defeat Al Qaeda" - and I think they've hit on an important point. If the biggest existential dilemma facing kids in Islamabad (and let's throw Riyadh in there too, and maybe someday Baghdad) is when to enter the workforce - maybe it would do wonders to limit the recruiting pool for terrorism. (Yes, I realize I just said global slacking off would be good for society.)
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