I bet nobody in America cares or gives a toss when it’s our election day here in the UK. I bet none of the mainstream American TV channels goes ‘UK Election’ mad, chucking away all the regular programming in favour of teams and teams of wild and over excited reporters and pundits broadcasting from the UK back to America.
Quite right too. Why should they? Why would they?
But far more importantly, why do we do that? The United States of America just finished a long drawn out two year battle for the job of running their country.
Hey, not our country, their country. A foreign country. A country that has nothing whatsoever to do with us.
Yet, there we were, with British media spending out Millions of Pounds in order to ensure that nothing else was in our broadcast news for the entire day of the voting and counting of the votes in this election we couldn’t vote in, voting for the President of a country we don’t live in.
Our obsession with America is not a healthy one. Any overview of the American people and their values will surely show even the most adoring fan how backward they truly are. Dominated by god fearing, gun toting and Neanderthal views on how human reproduction actually works, our more relaxed and enlightened attitudes and understanding of reality isn’t likely to be reached by them for centuries.
Even so, we are infatuated by this backward race. We allow them to dominate our television and cinema with ‘entertainment’ produced by them, starring them, based in their country and excluding us. Almost everything we watch is American.
Our own culture is eroded and forgotten by this lip-service and cap doffing we do to American culture.
This is surely something we should be very very ashamed of.
The United States of America are hardly a country to aspire to, yet that’s what we seem to be doing because of this illogical infatuation we have with them.
By the end of this century, America’s importance in the world will be negligible. It will be not far off the current importance of the Roman Empire, or indeed our own British Empire. Both are long consigned to history, and America is on its way there too.
If we must have a pin-up country to marvel over and to put up posters of all over our bedroom wall, then surely we should be doing that about one of the rising super-powers? Or even neighbouring countries from the European Union of which we are part.
Instead of worshipping a dinosaur in its death throes, we should be spending time wanting to be China, India, South Korea, or any of the emerging super-powers.
Yet, there we are with hundreds of our broadcasters over in America having multiple orgasms over a Presidential election that has nothing to do with us or a super-storm that will never hit us.
Heck, we even put Americans onto judging panels of X Factor and The Voice. Why do we do that?
Do you really mean to tell me we don’t have enough of our own British talent to fill those seats?
It really is time to stop it and take a reality check.
We are not American and we will never be. Let’s spend the money and time on ourselves, our actual neighbours and our own entertainment industry and news.
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