Waiting for World Domination
Notes From Michael Masterson's Journal: Waiting for World Domination
The Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Super Girl Contest. That was the name of the American Idol knockoff that captured 400 million viewers in China this year. Hunan TV in Changsha is producing one blockbuster hit after another, primarily by importing and reprocessing American pop culture for "the nation's increasingly trendy youth," as The New York Times put it.
You can't stop American culture, especially the quick-and-easy, schmaltzy-glitzy stuff that is manufactured in Hollywood, Nashville, and wherever it is that they produce ghetto entertainment. America's way of amusing itself is ubiquitous, irresistible, and subversive (see Word to the Wise, below) - as any good fundamentalist, Arab, or Christian, will tell you.
We don't need to invade and plunder to conquer. That only breeds pockets of stubborn resistance, which costs us billions of dollars and thousands of lives. It would be much easier to sit back and let the entertainment industry do its thing. Third-world cultures and second-world economies will collapse from their own weight. It will take a few years, but it will happen.
Early To Rise
The Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Super Girl Contest. That was the name of the American Idol knockoff that captured 400 million viewers in China this year. Hunan TV in Changsha is producing one blockbuster hit after another, primarily by importing and reprocessing American pop culture for "the nation's increasingly trendy youth," as The New York Times put it.
You can't stop American culture, especially the quick-and-easy, schmaltzy-glitzy stuff that is manufactured in Hollywood, Nashville, and wherever it is that they produce ghetto entertainment. America's way of amusing itself is ubiquitous, irresistible, and subversive (see Word to the Wise, below) - as any good fundamentalist, Arab, or Christian, will tell you.
We don't need to invade and plunder to conquer. That only breeds pockets of stubborn resistance, which costs us billions of dollars and thousands of lives. It would be much easier to sit back and let the entertainment industry do its thing. Third-world cultures and second-world economies will collapse from their own weight. It will take a few years, but it will happen.
Early To Rise
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