Western Corporate MonoCulture vs. The Hippies

The West has turned to sources outside itself for ideas and inspiration and especially for 'borrowing' ideas as a result of direct consumption of the commodities of both trade as well as pure Western imperialist dominator absorption.
One example of this is Orientalism -- in all its forms. One form was "Turquerie":

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Turquerie

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Turquerie is the Orientalist fashion for imitating aspects of Turkish art and culture in Western Europe between roughly the 16th to 18th centuries. The movement was experienced by many different Western European countries as it revealed the exotic and relatively unknown culture of Turkey, which was part of the Ottoman Empire, and at the beginning of the period the only power to pose a serious military threat to Europe. There was a growing interest in the West in Turkish-made products and art, including music, visual arts, architecture, and sculptures. This fashionable phenomenon became more popular through trading routes and increased diplomatic relationships between the Ottomans and the European nations, exemplified by the Persian embassy to Louis XIV in 1715. Ambassadors and traders would often return home and tell tales of exotic places they had experienced, bringing with them souvenirs of their adventures.

The movement was often reflected in the art of the period. Music, paintings, architecture, and artifacts were frequently inspired by the Turkish and Ottoman styles and methods. Paintings in particular portrayed the Ottomans with bright colours and sharp contrasts, suggesting their interesting peculiarity and exotic nature.

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After consuming "Turkish" ballets and operas and fashions and adapting the finery of Middle Eastern expression for centuries, the Western powers decided they wanted the Ottoman Empire itself and made this their imperialist purpose for World War I.
But Western Imperialism (and most especially its current Corporate product line of consumer goods and imaginary attendant lifestyle) is like a Doomsday Machine that devours and feeds off the very victims it depends on as the source of purpose and interest in life.

As Western Imperialist Powers continue to destabilize and take control of nations, what blinds them from seeing that Western Corporate MonoCulture is killing the very font of unique diverse creativity that the West has guzzled from and relied on for centuries?

What will the transnational corporations and the imperialists of the West do when they've finally dominated all the Earth's peoples and subjected them all to the Western Corporate MonoCulture and forced all peoples to adopt its mind-numbing, creativity-stifling consumerism?

Western Culture has a sickness. It is a sickness of the unacknowledged inadequacy of its insatiable HUNGER overlayed with compensatory SUPERIORITY and OVER-CONSUMPTION that has been going on too long.

(The West keeps expanding, spreading, crowding over one continent after another, and yet, it is Western Culture that decries the "over population" of the so-called 'Third World'! That's the pot calling the kettle black.)

And when creative expression does pop-up spontaneously in the West, what is the response? Is it embraced, celebrated, encouraged?

Under the circumstances of corporate domination, it is no surprise, then, that the most ORIGINAL (and non-corporate!) creative expression in Western Culture (since Jazz/Blues?--also non-corporate!) has met with nothing but derision for half a century. The Back-to-the-Earth/Love/ExpandingConsciousness art-of-living of the Hippies and those they inspired -- was deemed (and continues to be deemed) freakish and degenerate here in the U.S.A. The U.S.A., which is the locale of Western Corporate MonoCulture's greatest foothold, certainly is not the place the Corporations will tolerate anti-consumerism taken to an ART FORM! Throw those hippies in jail forever and refer to them using dismissive and demeaning terms: Let anyone who strays from the Corporate MonoCulture know that they too will be called a pothead/filthy hippie. Dare to live outside the MonoCulture and you too can open yourself to total ostracization.

It took half a century, but the Corporate Giants have worked hard to make it harder for plain folks to hold on to a house, let alone attain the land to get-back-to.