Re: I am opposed to an American Empire. I admire resistance to American cultural hegemony.... so you won't have the messianic Albright in your face for too much longer...
As shown by my post #16799, most average Europeans are heartily receptive to American culture and don't feel sweated into absorbing it. Also, an empire that relies on political "apostles" rather than tank divisions to spread its gospel is not that bad.... The US empire is an enclosing Utopia, not an Apartheid. Of course, the actual outcome of the economic maelstrom casted on the various countries that embarked on the so-called globalization, somehow, comes to a global apartheid with extremely rich countries alongside downtrodden wastelands....
Now, reflecting on culture, it's all too natural for cultural productions to be hegemonic inasmuch as cultural producers are basically culturemongers peddling their works as best they can. By doing so, they remind us of our fundamental brotherhood with other people: if Siberian hicks got freaked out by a Hollywood movie, well, then maybe they share certain values and opinions with the Yankee director?
I think it's that potential commonness with other people around the world that most disturbs the denigrators of the so-called American Empire: they loathe the Empire because it turns the social fabric into a continuum and doesn't break it down into irrevocable ghettoes. Hence the American far-right's anxiety about a widespread American agenda: Buchananites and other neo-isolationists desperately need anti-US backlashes overseas to feed back their own domestic segregationist agenda. They need to keep the "Us and Them" iron rule alive. Such a domineering worldview is doomed to failure.....
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