Confucius for US? Adbusters 2010

My latest contribution for Adbusters magazine is Confucius , a riff on the shifting winds of influence in the 21st Century, with special mention given to the now-iconic Sony Walkman. Let me know what you think.
Yoi otoshi o -- Happy New Year.

Confucius

East-West, good-evil, right-wrong?

"What I only dimly knew then, of course, was that the Walkman was produced by a nation low on national resources, limited in space and keen on reinvention. A nation much like the world we are all living in...