Need to more hope for the future? If you’re anything like me, you think the future looks brighter every day…. but just in case, here’s an interesting take on the fantastic future thanks to American technologies, in the OpinionJournal. Daniel Henninger writes “Here’s One Use Of U.S. Power Jacques Can’t Stop”.
We see where a curator at France’s Pompidou Center says his museum is opening a branch in Hong Kong, because “U.S. culture is too strong” there, and “we need to have a presence in Asia to counterbalance the American influence.” With the Pompidou Center?
“American influence” is the great white whale of the 21st century, and Jacques Chirac is the Ahab chasing her with a three-masted schooner. Along for the ride is a crew that includes Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, Vladimir Putin, North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il, Kofi Annan, the Saudi royal family, Robert Mugabe, the state committee of Communist China and various others who have ordained themselves leaders for life. At night, seated around the rum keg, they talk about how they have to stop American political power, the Marines or Hollywood.
The world is lucky these despots and demagogues are breaking their harpoons on this hopeless quest. Because all around them their own populations are grabbing the one American export no one can stop: raw technology. Communications technologies, most of them developed in American laboratories (often by engineers who voted for John Kerry), have finally begun to affect an historic shift in the relationship between governments and the governed. The governed are starting to win.
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