Let me put it like this, I was watching and old movie that was made before I was born that I had never seen before. Perhaps you have seen it. The name of the movie was "Good Morning Miss Dove." The truth is I cried when I saw the end of the movie because I thought it was so beautiful. Today such a movie would be considered corny. Today, movies for the most part contain naked or half naked people having sex, all types of foul language, and people exemplifying the worse qualities in human beings. These movies are part of our larger culture of filthy music, filthy magazines, and other types of filthy art that reflect our decadent moral values. We seek to impose this decadent culture on others who don't, in some cases want to take part. In arrogance we demonize them for it and say they are backwards because of it.
What is "filthy" to you, may not be "filthy" to others.
That is true. The point is that we seek to impose this culture, if you can all it culture at all, on others who think that it is filthy. That is arrogance.
Who is the "we" you reference and where are these Clockwork Orange booths forcing anyone to consume this culture? I think it is arrogance to think that anyone in the US is imposing anything cultural on anyone else. Heck, people like PeteEU steal (my word) this cultural content because he does not approve that a content owner would deprive him of access on his terms.
You do realize that the US government has various agencies that do nothing but come up with various types of propaganda that contain all types of images and reference all types of cultural symbols that deliberately suggest all types of things, right?
Link to some by way of example. You keep talking in generalities where only you know what you really mean.
Radio Sawa (Arabic: راديو سوا) is a 24-hour 7-day-a-week Arabic language radio station broadcasting in the Arab world. The station is a service of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc. and is publicly funded by the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the U.S. Congress.
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The station's goal is to promote pro-American attitudes to youth in the Arab world.
It's an empire. Empires that run the world generally have reason to be, lol.
There is a saying that pride proceeds the fall. It is one thing for a country to aggressively pursue it's self interests. However, it is another thing when it seeks to impose a set of decadent moral values on people who do not want to take part. That is symptom of an underlying arrogance. Has the power made the US too arrogant?
That concept has already been addressed and shot down in this thread. Sorry slick, it just ain't there. It's only the mind in concert with egoism under the influence of ignorance playing tricks.
Whatever you and your other little internet leftist cadre concluded in the last orgasmic agree-fest session is of no real significance to reality. The US has dozens of military bases all over the world that covertly "run" the planet whether you like it or not.
What values do we seek to impose on others?
Go back to post #73 and read the thread to the current position.
Nice words slick. Typical of hubris filled with many flaws. Prominently, glaringly if you will, is the use of the word covert. Flawed because not only is it covert, it is overt. That is one flaw. Another flaw is that you appear to think that US control of the world is absolute, and that is simply not so. The US has a preponderance of power, THAT SHOULD NEVER BE CONFUSED WITH ABSOLUTE POWER. There is a big difference, and one reason why the US has so many problems is that some very influential people in the US attempt to conduct US foreign policy AS IF the US had absolute power in the world, and that is simply not the case. But it is true that the US is the world's sole superpower, and currently has no serious competitor in the role. But again, that is only a preponderance of power.
Movies are made and if others want to watch them they do... same with music. Nobody is trying to impose the MTV music awards and that little slut Miley Cyrus bending over on the world. The world also listens to Taylor Swift and Jack Johnson. The world watches Miss Potter about the innocence and beauty of Beatrix Potter writing Peter Rabbit, Finding Neverland and the beauty and imagination of Peter Pan. We are imposing those values on others as much as the filth that you seem to only see.
I have lived in other countries and visited many more... the USA is not imposing anything. People either like US products or they don't.
Are you indicating that the USA is overtly covert?
I disagree with you and I gave an example of US government funded radio station that does it. When you air it, e.g. over the electromagnetic spectrum, with US government funds, you are indeed imposing it.
I said what I meant.
That was not the example that you gave... you talked about filthy movies and magazines.
No I gave a specific example of a radio station and content.
Right. Radio Sawa. One example