Saxony Line I-V
Continuing on our incredible research and truth mission to spread optimism to this world whilst tackling pressing issues I recently coined the term novocolonialism. Many of you undoubtedly read this and assumed that I was making merely a linguistic preference as I had with using blogist over blogger. However, in this instance I am not using some parlor trick of language, but making a clear distinction between neocolonialism and novocolonialism.
Neocolonialism is the practice of using economic or global trends by a country with economic clout to control a smaller, less influential country in the same manner as major powers once used military might to colonize regions. Novocolonialism is something entirely different. While both are exploitive in nature, neocolonialism with its use of economic forces to control weaker peoples and nations, novocolonialism employs scatter paint and lyrical abstraction to serve as some sort of mind control. What novocolonialists seek to do is to present something to an entity they feel as inferior with something that has utterly no meaning. However, in reality the presentation has absolutely no meaning. But, because it has been presented as meaningful it causes the unwitting viewer the consternation of creating meaning from the meaningless. The two most egregious examples of this in recent times are the most interesting man in the world and this guy. Strangely, I feel like a Mexican beer and a horse ride.
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