When people talk about the West, the USA (it’s correct to call it that, and not America – America includes Canada, Mexico, Uruguay, etc.), their moral values, economy, and so on, there can’t be any definitive opinions. It’s the same as arguing about good and evil, which is what we are, in principle, doing. Let’s break it down and see what makes up life in the USA: 1. Economy. It has been said that they looted enough during the war. This is true, and all economists recognize it (including American ones). The point is that the USA is in debt to the whole world because of the dollar, which is the world currency. The dollar is not backed by anything – as far as I understand, the USA produces fewer goods than there are dollars in the world. Thus, by supporting the dollar, we are supporting the standard of living in the USA, i.e., I buy a dollar, and some fat slob on the other side of the globe eats fast food, uses cheap gasoline, and pays very little for an apartment. And if we support the standard of living somewhere, then our standard of living decreases (the law: if something exists somewhere, then it definitely doesn’t exist somewhere else). Hence, another conclusion: there are either traitors or idiots in the Bank of Russia and the Government. 2. Religion, faith. When talking about this, we must proceed from the fact that we are different. Absolutely. The foundation of a Russian person is the soul, let’s say it directly. We always do something if our soul is drawn to it, or if it pleases us, or if it is for the soul, etc. Watch Zadornov sometime; he is mostly right. The foundation of a citizen of the USA is the body. That says it all. Even the religion of the people who came to destroy the poor Indians (by the way, when the Russians were developing Siberia and the Far East, they did not destroy a single people or reduce them to a miserable existence) assumed that a person’s qualities were assessed based on his property status. So what else can we expect from them? A completely global conclusion: we need to decide for ourselves what we want: money, then we need to treat others as a means to an end, using them in various ways, or peace of mind? We should proceed from this. Another point: it doesn’t matter if it’s rock, R&B, pop, or any other musical genre. What matters is the semantic load that the song carries, what it is about. Recently, so to speak, patriotic pop songs have begun to appear (“Russian guy…” – I don’t remember the rest, it’s too little! they played it a lot), while, for example, songs by Naut had a clearly anti-communist subtext – most likely because they caught the wave and adapted in time. Sorry for stating the obvious.