1580 Cultural Insecurity

The competing dynamics of security and insecurity play out in different ways.
Like recently, one of the Government Ministries in China announced they were banning certain artists from the airwaves in China. One of those artists was Lady Gaga. Perhaps they weren't gaga over Gaga. Or perhaps we westerners have insensitively not known that gaga is a Chinese idiom for kaka or something.
In any event, the reason the Chinese government gave for banning Gaga and others was that they were a threat to the "National Cultural Security" of China.
Really? Sounds like Cultural Insecurity to me. I would think thousands of years of Chinese Culture could stand the onslaught of a Heavy Eye Makeup bespeckled multi-octive pop star. Then again, maybe they weren't born that way.
And if I were China, I'd be a lot more worried about their country having the fastest rising obesity rate in the world. They'd be better off to ban McDonalds than Gaga.
But like I say, it's about the security of confidence. Like Amazon. There's a company that's not afraid to take on challenges. Matching their Kindle against the iPad, taking over the world of book distributing, parking gigabytes of data in the clouds.
I think their non-nonsense attitude can be summed up in a phrase I recently read on a deal they were offering on their website. It said, "Conditions apply."
Not "Some conditions apply." "Conditions apply." Perfect. And when you think about, the "some" in "some conditions apply" is somewhat superfluous. And redundant. One or many, conditions apply.
Pretty cool. People have been saying "some conditions apply" without thought ever since the disclaimer was invented. Way to break the mold Amazon.
That's having corporate confidence. And a culture of security.
America, ya gotta love it.