All of the recent debate we’ve been having about Communism and the role of the Entertainment Industry in suppressing Anti-Communist movies got me to thinking. We’ve been having a very serious discussion, and quite eye-opening as well, but I suggest we need a fresh perspective. I beg your indulgence to play along.
With clear hindsight, how will the world of a few centuries hence look upon this debate?
Will some completely overlooked event of recent past come to be a profound inflection point in the currents of history?
Will Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, where their rock group, Wyld Stallyn forms the basis for future world peace be the model for the Entertainment Industry’s penance and will absolution be sought by offering the world a Communism-slayer?
I think the Butterfly Effect may be at work, and many thanks to Daniel Drezner for discerning pattern from chaos, for surely David Hasselhoff (Read the link for the full story) will be seen by our descendents as the inspiration of Anti-Communist rage that brought down the Berlin Wall.
Forget those movies about escaping across the Berlin Wall, if we know Hollywood, we’ll be seeing a movie of Hasselhoff giving a concert that inspires the overthrow of the entire Warsaw Pact. Think back to the Elvis movie plots- Hasselhoff will be a guitar-slinger traveling the Eastern Bloc giving concerts, afterwhich revolutions follow. The dim-witted commisars won’t be able to discern cause and effect and Hasselhoff will fly under their radar – just like he did in the West.
Update from Razib: Please take a long hard look at this after you’ve noted the Hasselhoff picture:
Better now?
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