In this post I would like to make a long citation from an essay that has its own Wikipedia page! The essay is about operating systems, but the quote is from a section about culture:
“A huge, rich, nuclear-tipped culture that propagates its core values through media steepage seems like a bad idea. There is an [...]
Posts Tagged ‘media’
Imperial Cultural Death
Posted in History, tagged Columbine High School, Culture, empire, judgments, media, Neal Stephenson, words on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reason-able Talk from Zimbabwe
Posted in History, tagged Africa, dollarisation, economy, finance, globalisation, hyperinflation, media, money, propaganda, sovereignty, Zimbabwe on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Zimbabwe’s Monetary Policy I wrote the following:
The public in the west has completely accepted the neo-colonial narrative that blacks (and other non-Europeans) are unable to govern themselves, that not only they must adopt western ideologies but also westerners should supervise them. The most corrupt political administrations, currently under investigation, unashamedly talk about ‘teaching’ Africa [...]
Zimbabwe’s Monetary Policy
Posted in History, tagged Africa, central bank, economy, finance, hyperinflation, media, money, propaganda, Zimbabwe on August 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When third world countries that had adopted the so-called ‘socialist’ system started to collapse in the seventies and early eighties they pointed to the future of the whole socialist block, they were the canary in the mine. The imported system with its western symbols and nomenclature was grafted by force on these countries’ societies, this [...]
