The pendulum swings, and sometimes it swings further. It's probably the furthest right I've seen it since 9/11.
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American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the value-system of their empire.
All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.
That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.
Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.
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the entirety of the anglosphere; along with the rest of the global north; is shifting rightwards
They wondered why right-wing provocateurs were winning the authenticity wars over their left-wing counterparts and how the Democrats had managed to get themselves tainted as the party of finger-wagging, uptight school prefects.
None of these developments, taken individually, guarantees that American journalism will become a mouthpiece for the Republican Party. But collectively they create a climate in which the boundaries of acceptable debate shift rightward.
this article is bizarre in how it ignores (or is unaware of) the social biases present in the united states against leftist platforms. if they had known, they would already have answers to such questions.