[lbo-talk] Politicization of everyday life

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 15 13:39:13 PDT 2009


The number of Americans who erroneously believe that Soviet-era pop culture/entertainment was all propaganda is amazing. Rivalled only by the numbers of people who erroneously believe that the Soviets allowed religion.

--- On Mon, 6/15/09, Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
> [WS:] When I got freshly off the boat some 28 years ago, I
> was surprised how politicized everyday life in Amerika
> was.  Not just the ubiquitous flag waving (virtually
> unheard of in Europe at that time) but seemingly benign
> areas, such as children cartoons.  So piping political
> speeches into phones may be crude, but not out of line with
> thinly veiled politicization of every day life.
>
> Wojtek
>
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