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marymar discovered 3 months ago- From the page: "In Britain we may have embraced the rise of the Christian empire of America in ways that seemed purely natural and purely brave, if you followed Tony Blair. He felt he was right and saw it as an act of statesmanship to go to bed with the moral ambitions of Bush, but in a sense Blair's record as the people's prime minister had already predicted such an event. Our own empire was gone. The shipyards had closed. We no longer exported Britishness to the world, so why wouldn't an ambitious, populist politician of the new millennium see it as natural - an act of survival, even - that we should instead swallow our pride and our reason and take a hand in exporting American democracy? The culture of self-help that seemed so to dominate the airwaves - including the airwaves of high culture, movies, poetry and the novel - was born in the suburbs of America as surely as Oprah Winfrey. Before long we were watching the leisured poor throwing chairs at one another on Jerry Springer, and then we had it too - every day on the Jeremy Kyle Show Culture as social balm. Spite as entertainment. Shouting as argument. Dysfunction as normality. Desires as rights. Shopping as democracy."
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