The biggest dick in the west

Before CIA and JSOC operators come busting through my door, I just want to say that I’ve been blowing through the Blowback podcast. If you’re a dork for the history of US foreign policy since the end of World War II, it’s a must listen. The United States is an empire. Let’s not kid ourselves on that. But it’s one that differs from empires of the past. The United States of America is more than just a geographical territory. It’s also a cultural and ideological one. It doesn’t need to unleash a legion of troops and rain down bombs from the heavens. Instead its weapon of choice is a far more sinister one: it’s Pepsi, it’s Apple, it’s Hollywood, it’s the movement of capital into the hands of the few. Armies and navies and cults of personalities don’t make a nation. It’s the hearts and minds of the people that do. And nothing eradicates the soul greater than a nice sugary drink from Coca-Cola to bring us to the precipice of diabetes. That is the true might of America.