December 20, 2001
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Supply and Demand
Reading this interesting Glenn Reynolds post on his alleged Euro-bashing reminded me of something I saw in a "family newsletter." One of my relatives abroad hoped that 911 would make Americans "less pushy" about our culture.
I still don't get it. First of all, we seem to be under the gun for not having a culture. Second, the culture I observe is based on individual rights and choice, so it is the antithesis of pushy. Third, who is in Europe "pushing" our culture on them? It is similar to remarks about "exporting" culture. The thing about exports, as we know all too painfully, is that somebody has to buy them - import them - or they never become exports. I remarked on this in an earlier post , nobody is forcing anybody to buy Big Macs, listen to N'Sync (I obviously don't) or watch Die Hard movies.
I'm open to suggestions, as I have remarked before, but I have yet to see an example of us "exporting" culture that someone else didn't want to import.
Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at December 20, 2001 05:57 AM | Technorati inbound links