Empire: Hardt responds

[Brad DeLong]

>John Gulick wrote:
>
>>Hollywood liberals getting up
>>on their soapbox about endangered civil liberties while exporting putrid
>>celluloid crap to the world.
>
>So why is the stuff so damned popular? Dennis Redmond posted a link 
>to the EU's stat site the other day showing that 75% of EU box 
>office receipts go to U.S. films - in countries with their own film 
>industries. It's not like they're forcing people to see the "putrid 
>celluloid crap." What's up?
>
>Doug

Brainwashing. Pure brainwashing. They have all been brainwashed, and 
alienated from their true selves. They don't like Terminator IV: 
Infiltrator. They just think they do.

Brad DeLong, off to see "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"