Is he wrong though?
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Yes, on some important points.
He talks as though corporate media culture is the only culture. In many ways America is the last bastion of authentic English, Scots and German culture.
He talks as though no one in America has any culture older than 1950. I am a young man, and when I was growing up public schools still taught Shakespeare and King Arthur and Homer.
He talks as though the English language is determined by what is in the dictionary. In reality, 'tis the other way 'round.
Absolutely.
He links to a petition that wants to expel the USA from the UN. 🤣
Hopefully they're successful.
Note commie raised fist.


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Invoke Article 6 and Expel the US from the United Nations
It's not that the culture has been entirely eradicated, but rather that it has become the dominant culture which is then exported to many parts of the world. Just compare how people spoke 50 years ago to today, in one example. Slow changes that may seem otherwise natural, except they always trend in a negative direction.
Are they still teaching homer and shakespeare, or has that been deemed racist and turned into a diversity Disney movie? Again, not exclusively in the US, but it's pretty easy to see how standards in schooling have dropped year by year since I left. I could see it dropping in real time in the lower grades as I was leaving school some 20 years ago.
You've gone after the messenger rather than the message, which suggests that you're somewhat in denial.
He’s not wrong. If we can’t think, we can’t revolt.