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You beat repressive regimes with blue jeans and rock music. The older generation of Taliban can never resist these weapons of mass destruction.
by wesleywt 5y ago
You beat repressive regimes with blue jeans and rock music. The older generation of Taliban can never resist these weapons of mass destruction.
- DubiousPusher 5y agoI hear this cliche a lot. Can you explain how American pop culture actually has changed a regime? I'm curioua of the soecific mechanisms.
- forgingahead 5y agoBut that doesn't exist any more. Blue jeans and rock music/rebel culture has been replaced with Blue Checkmarks and Cancel Culture. The key is to be aspirational, which the current cultural fervour is decidedly not.