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    Video is a medium remarkably well suited to...

    Video is a medium remarkably well suited to illusion. I could take a camera into a Manila slum and cut together a piece showing that the people are happy and cheerful and loving life, or I could do...
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    I have never yet clicked on a You Tube link...

    I have never yet clicked on a You Tube link purporting to provide economic or political analysis, and I'm not going to start now. The format doesn't suit the purpose.



    "Crassness" is...
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    Are we talking about totalitarian regimes or...

    Are we talking about totalitarian regimes or about post-communist states turning to consumerism? Not a whole lot of overlap there.

    In my experience "crass consumerism" usually refers to somebody...
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    Ok, correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like...

    Ok, correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you mean to say something like...

    a strong enough majority of those who care about politics at all... know and understand that the pseudo-communist...
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    The Chinese know? What, all 1.3 billion of...

    The Chinese know? What, all 1.3 billion of them?

    I suspect you'd find that there's as little consensus in China as anywhere else, and a very considerable degree of discontent with the...
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    The Chinese made the decision to mass produce...

    The Chinese made the decision to mass produce consumer goods for export. A decision not to buy those goods would have been perverse and largely unenforceable. This is not something "we" are doing...
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    I don't see how you can say that "the Western...

    I don't see how you can say that "the Western powers are doing this". They aren't, by plan or otherwise. he Chinese are doing it themselves.

    It's interesting too see people saying that...
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