Yes, they literally "established" it. Thats what that word means.
They drove the perspective for the sake of propaganda. They promoted american movies and art everywhere.
And it worked. This is how they got young kids in Europe, Asia and S.America to side with them.
Through a vague notion of coolness, individual liberty, sophistication, and tying that to progress and to America.
If you look at anti-colonial documentaries you can see it very evidently. One that comes to mind is "The hour of the furnaces" about the argentinian US backed dictatorship. There is a chapter in there where all the yuppie city dwellers are very counter culture oriented and welcome the external influence in their country.
The way they infiltrate the youth is through this very cultural operation.
The world wide phenomenon of counter culture was a CIA fabrication.
PS: Communist bloc art is not bland and conformist, it's just about daily life or about collective life. Some of the best western art is also about daily life and society. But thats just my opinion.
They drove the perspective for the sake of propaganda. They promoted american movies and art everywhere.
And it worked. This is how they got young kids in Europe, Asia and S.America to side with them.
Through a vague notion of coolness, individual liberty, sophistication, and tying that to progress and to America.
If you look at anti-colonial documentaries you can see it very evidently. One that comes to mind is "The hour of the furnaces" about the argentinian US backed dictatorship. There is a chapter in there where all the yuppie city dwellers are very counter culture oriented and welcome the external influence in their country.
The way they infiltrate the youth is through this very cultural operation.
The world wide phenomenon of counter culture was a CIA fabrication.
PS: Communist bloc art is not bland and conformist, it's just about daily life or about collective life. Some of the best western art is also about daily life and society. But thats just my opinion.