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...From this jumble of rehashed prejudices, Americans might learn why much of the rest of the world—not just neo-medievalist Muslims—fear and cluck disapproval at the country’s headstrong populace. The modern Western world believes that the United States is a cultureless, violent, under-educated juggernaut whose two primary activities (both carried out at McDonald’s) are eating hamburgers and shooting people. This rash generalization is one that Laxer’s book bears out and that Americans would do well to understand, whether to mend their habits...
From this jumble of rehashed prejudices, Americans might learn why much of the rest of the world—not just neo-medievalist Muslims—fear and cluck disapproval at the country’s headstrong populace. The modern Western world believes that the United States is a cultureless, violent, under-educated juggernaut whose two primary activities (both carried out at McDonald’s) are eating hamburgers and shooting people. This rash generalization is one that Laxer’s book bears out and that Americans would do well to understand, whether to mend their habits...
Such concern could mount as long as the government pursues a policy of trial and error, one day stressing a capitalist slogan ("To Get Rich Is Glorious"), the next a Communist one ("Sacrifice for Socialism"). The most urgent priority of what some Chinese call Deng's "cultureless (materialistic) revolution" is to find a new dynamic for China that can help ensure the stability of its society even when the inevitable economic and political disappointments occur. The pragmatists have succeeded in brushing off the ashes of Maoism. They must now find a way of enabling the Middle Kingdom to advance...
...hand (tolerant, humane, in harmony with green nature), is all right. He accuses his own generation, particularly the writers, artists and performers, of "selling the past," neglecting serious work in a scramble for media success. Partly as a result, standards have crumbled, and the younger generation is "growing up cultureless...
There are still several subsidiary themes which are far more interesting than anything Hollywood's put out since All the King's Men. There is the recognition of California as a cultureless, bullshit-laden playground for politicos, with a populace easily persuaded by ballsy New York admen who have survived the urban social torments most Californians have tried to escape. There is the depiction of political groupies, limousine liberals, and union stumblebums, which have rarely been so strongly labeled by their proper names. There is, finally, the demonstration of the wizardry by which we can be sucked in emotionally through...