<< Bubble-wrap and salve | Main | Grad Does Not Lend Itself Well To Catchphrases >> June 01, 2005 >> Buy Canada, Sell America Hahaha, check out this tool. It's a tongue-in-cheek (I hope anyways) essay by some Americano kid about how the U.S. should straight-up purchase Canada for $100 000 per head. My favorite part is in the letters section: (regarding 1812) -and- "I am not sure which history books your are reading but without U.S. involvement most people would have been speaking either German or Japanese. Oh, I get it.....Our history books must be wrong..." You got it, buddy. American cultural production doesn't stop in Hollywood - nationalist propaganda chills out in the education system too! Rewriting history is fun, especially when it makes your war record beefier-than-life (in the heartland of the globe's most militaristic empire, no less; how convenient for drumming up support in malleable children for future aggressive endeavors on the world stage! It's us versus them, kids, and the United Nations is unpatriotic. Check your history books for 'proof'!) Ugh. I don't like the future. Posted by Chris at 01:11 PM >> Commentations (2)
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