Deja vu all over again. This was from a lecture I gave in 1990 (published by The Cato Institute that year: Western movies show people a picture of Western life—a very funny and distorted picture, but still a view of Western clothes, homes, and the like. When we watch movies, that kind of information just washes over us, but to people of a different society it can be very revealing. In Moscow last fall, for example, the Swedish movie Fanny and Alexander was showing, and a scene of a Christmas banquet had a big impact on viewers. There is a long table with wonderful food on it, and the camera begins at one end and very slowly, lovingly goes down the table, showing us turkeys, sauces, vegetables, and all sorts of fantastic things. At that point, the Soviet audiences stood up and applauded. Perhaps the silent heroes in the revolutions of 1989 were Sony and Mitsubishi and others who keep making more powerful and fantastic devices that convey more information in smaller packages at lower cost. (cato.org/publications/commentary/why-socialism-collapsed-eastern-europe) nytimes/2015/01/25/world/north-koreas-forbidden-love-smuggled-illegal-soap-operas.html?_r=0
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 06:01:58 +0000
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