A Mind That Suits
What doesn't kill me, makes me laugh... usually.
Thursday, April 10, 2003 ::: There's decline, and then there's decline.Are You Hot? is probably not itself a sign of decline. I spend a lot of time in Latin cultures, and Are You Hot could well be the main prime time show on any Latin network from Rome to Tierra del Fuego. Some of those cultures are doing fine, especially Italy, which has one of the world's best economies. And Latin people are pumping a tremendous amount of life into our economy. Being exuberantly happy about the way our benighted species propagates itself is not in and of itself decadent. But the show is brutally analytic: saying "looking good" to everybody is Latin, the laser pointer is very efiiciency-minded-"I'm-just-being-honest"-USA all the way. And Howard Stern is suing. Those are signs of decline.
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