Heart Sea Monkeys: The Agony and Ecstasy of Stalinism Meeting Mindless Consumerism

Heart Sea Monkeys: The Agony and Ecstasy of Stalinism Meeting Mindless Consumerism:

Daisey succinctly ties these two philosophies together in his play. China wanted to "modernize" and the US wanted dirt-cheap labor, devoid of real unions, to manufacture all the toys and gizmos Americans have been told endlessly that we are "entitled" to as free Capitalists so long as we can afford them. The mindless consumerism of the West has met the (faux) tireless Communist worker at the nadir of Orwellian dystopia in Shenzhen. It's the place where dreams of the future go to die.