Comments on: Borat: Social Failings of America for Make Money for Sacha Baron Cohen http://www.penopticon.com/2006/11/borat-social-failings-of-america-for-make-money-for-sacha-baron-cohen/ Skewed Views from Richmond Hill and Southern Ontario Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:23:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Auerbach http://www.penopticon.com/2006/11/borat-social-failings-of-america-for-make-money-for-sacha-baron-cohen/comment-page-1/#comment-248 Auerbach Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:36:09 +0000 http://www.penopticon.com/blog/2006/11/borat-social-failings-of-america-for-make-money-for-sacha-baron-cohen/#comment-248 Mike Myers in Goldmember, Michael Moore in Farenheit 9/11, and now Borat. Doubtless, next year it will be some other ersatz, effluent peddling icon who seeps successfully into the crannies of the vast intellectual void that is popular culture. It is said that nations get the leadership they deserve. Apparently, somehow the masses get the standards of entertainment that they can fully appreciate. So much of life is so delightfully uncomplicated. Mike Myers in Goldmember, Michael Moore in Farenheit 9/11, and now Borat. Doubtless, next year it will be some other ersatz, effluent peddling icon who seeps successfully into the crannies of the vast intellectual void that is popular culture.

It is said that nations get the leadership they deserve. Apparently, somehow the masses get the standards of entertainment that they can fully appreciate. So much of life is so delightfully uncomplicated.

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