Deep thought of the day, while mowing the back yard. The USSR had Potemkin villages, while we now have advertainment and media. Potemkin villages were used to deceive the outside world into thinking that life was bearable within the USSR.
Our advertainment and media are employed to deceive Americans into believing that our own system is tolerable and different from what it truly is. It’s a Potemkin village to trick those already inside of the system. Worse yet, these methods have the deleterious effect of making everyone external of the system to want to come here.
At least the USSR Potemkin villages had some substance to them, like lumber. However, our modern-day American Potemkin villages would be completely wiped out by an EMP with nothing useful to pick through and in a far worse shape than before.
Thought and Memory 