Cold Constructs Blog

I’m in Cambridge, England right now and have visited Italy (Florence and Venice), Austria (Salzburg), and Germany (Munich). What theme runs between all of these places? America. American music, t-shirts, and other products, stores, restaurants, and everything else are all here! WHY? Why can’t I hear any German techno at Oktoberfest (I didn’t) or see the fucking palace in Venice without a Hollywood movie shoot in front of it? (Seriously. I took a picture.) WHY in America can’t I find the best French science fiction books? Why do I hear more about Hollywood movies than original English films while I’m here?

Even overseas I can’t get away from American shit - it was bad enough in Central America. I left in the hopes of learning about the world that America is trying so feverishly to assimilate into a single, boring empire of pseudo-democracy. But I find it impossible to ignore its presence here, there, anywhere.

Americans don’t understand this. I want choices, but we’re being cut off from the world. I want to listen to what it has to say.

In America itself we have limited choices: corporation’s dominate all markets, cowering in fear of innovation as if risk and challenging traditions always brought destruction and bankruptcy. The United States of America was born from such a challenge! Today, however, Change is Bad(tm) and the US of A is now The Imperial Federation of Aristocrats. When will I be able to absorb great works from around the globe?

But what do you expect. All the fucking hippies are in power. We, the children of hippies, will throw down the gauntlet and get dirty. We’ll change the world, because right now, it really blows. On behalf of our parents, I apologize, because it’s their fault. Everyone will just have to wait until they retire.