Re: Yours credibility dtj has been blown out of the water with this one post I'm afraid Archived Message
Posted by Willem on September 12, 2019, 1:48 pm, in reply to "Yours credibility dtj has been blown out of the water with this one post I'm afraid"
You're reading more into his lines than is there. Take eg 5. Vast swathes of people all over the world are following and working like mad to adopt the lifestyle of Americans "You present this as if it's something positive and desirable to be aspired to and then say That this is a disaster for the planet is another story. No, the "another story" is entirely the point, which you introduce and then summarily dismiss." It is true that vast numbers of people look up to the US as a place they would like to go, work and/or copy their lifestyle. It is just a fact that US culture (through Hollywood etc.) has been very successfully exported to large parts of the world. I don't see DJ as presenting this as positive at all -- just stating as fact -- indeed he knows it is a disaster for the world as he says (wars and climate change). The same can be said for the UK -- many people eg in Romania still see Britain as having a great education system and a good democracy. The point he's making is that for those UK leaders who do NOT see this as a disaster, one would expect them to worry about this image of the UK. Because from the outside it looks like a complete mess, this inability to deal with Brexit properly. The consequences could well be that Britain loses "credibility" (which I would applaud, but that's not the point).
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