IOZ:

...As ultimately cynical as they are, our ruling class truly does share a belief in this central article of faith, that at some point the whole world will be just like America, and all cultural identity will be ethnic food festivals and dance troupes in gaudy native dress.

Or, to put it rather more precisely, the whole world that matters will be as such, the Africans will calm the fuck down and stop with the AIDS and civil wars, and the Muslims will sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up and do as they're fucking told.

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