Anthony Blinken, b. 1962, United States Secretary of State. He is additionally a child boomer (albeit on the tail finish of the era), and has a sensibility to match. On Monday he was seen sporting a black shirt and denims, swinging an electrical guitar round, performing Neil Younger’s “Rockin’ within the Free World” with a Ukrainian band. (The tune of youth appears to be misplaced on our 62-year-old sober American.)
The video must be seen to be believed:
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An illustration of what I consider because the “Coke advert mentality” after the well-known “Hilltop” TV spot from 1971.
A superficial internationalist pluralism united by general financial construction—it is a straight line from a Coke industrial to Tom Friedman’s Blinken to McDonald’s Peace singing a tune about American decadence. as an anthem within the capital metropolis of the joint shopper of the US and the IMF. The Coke advert can be an ideological mirror of the Soviet system, which was united by an internationalist, pluralist and holistic financial construction. “Do not sound just like the satan, however I to them… we have got a form, mild machine gun arm.” Many concerns!
