>> But the US is like the Roman Empire - a super coloniser - and it will fall > i was just thinking of the unique position that dj mani is in being an > american yet at the same time post-colonial...
I understand his angst, I really do. I am just saying how his stance could backfire as most people don't understand the complexities of the situation. > i am glad however that *some* of the europeans as well as the austrailians > and japanese support art and/or culture > other than that which they're being bludeoned with...not that america > doesn't, but it gets comodified pretty quickly now-a-days... It's the dumbing down of things that gets to me and you see it most in historical blockbusters, like that diabolical Hollywood film Troy. ;) That film should be rated LCD - Lowest Common Denominator. There's a very good film called The Honest Courtesan about the life of the Renaissance poet Veronica Franco which was dumbed down and called Dangerous Beauty - diabolical - in the US as, despite his degrees, the exec didn't know what a courtesan was and figured US audiences wasn't either. All the darkness was taken out of the film as well. The same mentality dictates that dumbed down 'techno' - ie Tiesto - is hailed above the real thing - or at least something more layed and complex. It's like comparing Brad Pitt to Derek Jacobi. How funny - and ironic - is it that David Lynch's Muholland Drive, a very clever US film (even if it was a postmodern conceit in the old fashioned sense) should be funded by the French. ;)
