Dingo the Dissident

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Saturday 20 May 2023

The Biggest Threat to the World

is not the crude aggressiveness
of "tin-pot" Putin and slavish Russia

but the corruption of cultures
and minds by the USA and its
turbo-capitalist, class-ridden
anti-culture of untrammelled
ambition and greed.

Everywhere in the world
you can see the ugly American
baseball cap, and hear ugly
American music: Soft Power.

Everywhere in the world
ugly American lies
about freedom, democracy 
and all that crap are enthusiastically
propagated and believed.

As for freedom:
25% of all known prisoners in the world
languish in the Land of the Free,
most of them not pinko-gray.

As for democracy: there are only two political parties
both of them crudely right-wing, both of them financed
by gross billionaires and transnational planet-destroyers.

In the Home of the Brave,
there are more guns than people or dogs
or coyotes or bison.
Guns appoeal greatly to testosterone-toxic cowards. 
The US has twice as many guns per person than
the next highest-in-league country: Yemen. 

In the Land of Opportunity
the gap between very rich
and very poor is by far the greatest in the world,
and a quarter of the population has no access
to medical treatment.

And we have all been Americanised,
however reluctantly
by the most successfully-aggressive
lowest-common-denominator
pizza and hamburger, monopoly
monoglot culture yet devised.

















how-millions-died-unseen-in-america's-post-09/11-wars


3 comments:

Wofl said...

The most violent (self-destructively successful) cultures
have been monoglot:

American, Russian, British, French,
Dutch, Spanish, Roman, Arab...and so on.

Wofl said...

In 1950s Indiana, a prison sentence of up to 14 years could be imposed on anyone who 'aided or instigated anyone under 21 to Commit Masturbation'.

Kill-joy and repressive Christianity has ever been 'raring to go' in the Shameful, Shameless Republic.

May 20, 2023

bandit said...

Historically, all republics are vanquished due their own corrupted nature.
Yet I never believed, as an unwilling student of propaganda, I'd live to see the Fall of an Empire.