Just as Noam Chomsky cogently identified the ‘consent machinery’ of capitalist America, so too I think existed a well-oiled pop culture export apparatus which sold the entire world a false American Dream. This overall optimism would tragically subside in favour of general fear and anxiety post 2001.
American Pie creates a mirage; a perfect suburbia which is window-dressed by Hollywood to look starkly different than the glib real thing. In post neo-liberal India, adolescences were shaped by such media. A…