Marginalia Americana 4
Kazakhstan finally gets it right by inviting Borat to visit the country.
Borat is the latest creation of Sascha Baron Cohen, a British (Jewish) comedian whose latest creation Borat draws laughs at the expense of Kazakhstan's dignity, portraying it as an anti-semite, anti-feminist, all-around backwater state. The Kazakh government, understandably furious, had complained and threatened legal action against Cohen. Aided partly by the unsolicited, if not unanticipated, publicity this generated, he stars in the mockumentary Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (hence the Americana), soon to be released in US theaters from coast to coast.
The Kazakh government has finally come to its senses and decided to be a good sport. Somebody really understands public relations there, unusual for governments anywhere.
The Student’s Guide to Freakonomics paraphrases John Kenneth Galbraith: "[A]ccording to ... Galbraith, conventional wisdom must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting, though not necessarily true." This would also be a good definition for "truthiness".
Borat is the latest creation of Sascha Baron Cohen, a British (Jewish) comedian whose latest creation Borat draws laughs at the expense of Kazakhstan's dignity, portraying it as an anti-semite, anti-feminist, all-around backwater state. The Kazakh government, understandably furious, had complained and threatened legal action against Cohen. Aided partly by the unsolicited, if not unanticipated, publicity this generated, he stars in the mockumentary Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (hence the Americana), soon to be released in US theaters from coast to coast.
The Kazakh government has finally come to its senses and decided to be a good sport. Somebody really understands public relations there, unusual for governments anywhere.
The Student’s Guide to Freakonomics paraphrases John Kenneth Galbraith: "[A]ccording to ... Galbraith, conventional wisdom must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting, though not necessarily true." This would also be a good definition for "truthiness".
posted by Jun Okumura at 2:16 PM
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