Dr. Dre and Putin

  I don’t think that Vladimir Putin’s support of traditional values
makes him a good guy. Freedom comes first. I also support traditional
values but I don’t want the government to shove them down my throat. Banning obscenity
from entertainment media, Putin’s latest ukase,  would keep
Shakespeare, Goethe and Dante out of circulation in their original form,
not to mention Rabelais or Villon.


What we do with our freedom is another thing. Apple has just bought
Dr. Dre’s earphone company for $3.2 billion, making the rapper one of
the country’s wealthiest men. One presumes that the selling point of his
earphones is not their superior technical characteristics but their
association with Dre’s rapping, which is too disgusting to illustrate on
this site; readers may satisfy their prurient curiosity here.
 Dre raps about drug use, rape, pimping and violence: he is a repulsive
degenerate whom a healthy society would excrete and forget. Dre’s $3.2
billion score gauges the popularity of evocations of rape and murder.



There is no guarantee that freedom will prevail over dictatorship. I reviewed some of the history here.



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