In this outrageous Huffington Post post (incongruously appearing with ads from classmates.com and Kaiser Permanente), Stan Goff makes radical recommendations to the people of the world, including this imperative:
(5) Boycott American cultural products. They are propaganda aimed at turning your children into mindless consumers and your nations into obedient colonies.
Although I admittedly live in a self-imposed and narrow American music enclave, this blog doesn't aspire to hegemony over the wider world. Sure, in a small way, aworks does highlight for consideration particular cultural artifacts from a particular geopolitical entity. But I assume people are intelligent enough to make up their own minds.
More importantly, explain to me how boycotting say, Philip Glass' mindful Koyaanisqatsi would be a good thing?
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