On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:47:41AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:26:53PM -0400, Thomas Pomber wrote: > > I was talking to this electrician who just relocated here to Canada > > from Russia, and I was blown away when he told me that they didn't > > brainwash their people in The Commie Days half as much as the US does > > today. Yeah right, I said! But he said that they never had movies > > where the Americans were depicted as ignorant morons like you guys do. > > Anyway, to make a long story short, the guy's got a point. > > A good reason for this is that for the later half of the 20th century > the U.S. stopped using physical force on its own people (or at least > used less of it). Instead they decided on spending the money on public > relations, and on technicalogical methods. So basically they got into > bed with the entertainment industry to make sure that every little film > and show had its little piece of propoganda.
Must be true. When I was in Europe and turned on the TV, I said: "God, please let me get back to my land of 500 channels of fakeness." Europe is America minus 10 years. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]