e: Global homogenization

[Craig Clark]

Paul DiFilippo poses the immensely disturbing question:

> To play devil's advocate re:  spread of US culture:  William
> Safire (yuk! sorry right off the bat) has been writing this week
> about the curious fact that "no two countries which both have
> McDonald's franchises have ever fought a war". The Hamburglar
> does a better job than the UN!  Is McDonaldization too big a 
> price to pay for global peace?

The answer of course is yes - since it works in the interests of 
US-based Capitalism to assume that global peace cannot be achieved in 
any other way. BTW, is this true? I'm thinking of Argentina vs United 
Kingdom, the away match played at the Malvinas: surely there were 
Golden Arches in the streets of both London and Buenos Aires?

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"