Listen now (86 min) | This ep is inspired by Evgenia’s recent essay on her youth and Russia’s deeply colonized culture. But we get into all sorts of related topics — like what else is out there and what’s worth living for, other than this cursed consumerism and materialism that has surrounded us our whole lives.
Great article. Reminds me of a book called Civilization: How We All Became American by Regis Debray. This is a problem across the world, and from anecdotal person experience I concur. Everything has been eaten up by Americanization, to varying degrees. I've been everywhere from Vietnam to the Balkans to Kenya and the only place that didn't feel distinctly American almost at all (or at least trying to be American) was China.
Great article. Reminds me of a book called Civilization: How We All Became American by Regis Debray. This is a problem across the world, and from anecdotal person experience I concur. Everything has been eaten up by Americanization, to varying degrees. I've been everywhere from Vietnam to the Balkans to Kenya and the only place that didn't feel distinctly American almost at all (or at least trying to be American) was China.
Every fucking city of any country has these fucking shits "I <3 CityWithoutAnyEnglishNativeSpeaker", and I hate it.
yes, its similar in Romania too. China kind of broke away from this after the 90s i feel