US corporations possess less than zero imagination

AS WE REPORTED LATE last year, Canada has decided to "cope" with audio recording media by simply levying a tax on blank media.

So the imagination of the civil servants in Ottawa or wherever, is equal to the imagination of civil servants everywhere. And vice presidents of US multinationals are probably limited by a factor that is, zero, too.

We may as well all live in a Maoist state where we all sing the praises of Coca Cola, Intel and McDonalds, just like the communists would have done in the 1960s, if they'd taken the trouble to throw the yarrow sticks and consult the I Ching. And developed prescience.

Mao, the author of the incredibly boring red book, would then applaud his victory over capitalism, although we here believe he was responsible for a "cultural revolution" which meant many ordinary people lost their quite valuable (to them) lives.

The Canadian model is similar, yet oddly different, to some European countries which suppose that good bands should be encouraged, rather than suffer being thrown in gaol.

Imagine, for example, if long dead US citizen Jim Morrison of band The Doors was faced with a tax on his music here in the 21st century. A terrifying thought, as he's buried in Paris.

Would he perhaps expose himself to his audience and say: "Sorry, in my part of the world the RIAA forbids me from displaying myself without every single photograph and tape recorder being liable to seizure?"

We suppose his attitude would differ from that.

Nevertheless, the conservative Canadians did impose a levy on blank audio recording media, perhaps because the government felt it had to do so. Under pressure, so to speak.

We believe this is the meaning of world government and the league of nations. Everything becomes grey and meaningless. µ

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