cultural imperialism

James Heartfield Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Tue Nov 13 08:17:34 PST 2001


In message <p05100300b816dde6017c@[192.168.1.100]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes
>Two items from today's NYT:
>
>>But the ideology, it seems, never sank in. When Taliban soldiers
>>arrived they smashed every television set they could find. As they
>>approached his home, Muhammad Asif, a young shopkeeper, rushed his
>>Sharp 17-inch television and VCR to the backyard, where he buried them.
>>
>>Since then, Mr. Asif has dreamed of the day when he would be able to
>>watch again. That moment arrived today when he unearthed his
>>television and slipped a weathered copy of "Titanic" into the VCR.

Suspicious that the interviewee is called 'As if!'

-- James Heartfield



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