Is not it special that attacking commercial culture and its
> idols provokes so much controversy on lbo, while the informative
> postings about economic and political development outside the US (such
> as those by Ulhas Joglekar) go virtually unnoticed?
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And when was the last time you made your usual brilliant academic comments on FDI dynamics in hi-tech industries and the brutal thuggery in Gujarat?
Ian
>
> Reminds me of an experience I had while in the grad school. After a demo
> organized by CISPES, the organizers threw a party for the participants.
> At the party, one of the CISPES characters, having learned than I am
> from Eastern Europe, started telling me the story of his visit to the
> x-USSR. The story belonged to the popular genre of ridiculing the
> quality or choice of consumer goods available outside the US. What
> boggled the mind of that particular rising star of the US left was the
> soft drink dispensing machines - the Soviet models dispensed drinks in
> glasses that were rinsed and used by the next customer, instead of
> throw-away paper cups used in the US models.
>
> I opined that seeing the soda dispensing machines was not much bang for
> the buck he paid to visit that big and diverse country. He got pissed
> and stopped talking to me. Challenging stereotypes, left or right,
> almost invariably provokes angry reaction.
>
> Wojtek
>
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