Free Entry 2, Week 15

If Natural Born Killers got a gritty reboot,
it would have to star the Jonas Brothers instead
of Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, the internet
instead of Robert Downey Jr. That would be frightening
enough: tweens ravaging the Southwestern countryside
for no other reason than to kill, fame not an option,
because fame comes with the territory of the internet.
The meme, as I'm told its called. What does that word
really mean, anyway? Is internet fame the ultimate type
of fame, because anyone in the world can see it?
(Unless, of course, one lives in a country in which
there are restrictions placed upon the internet
viewership.) I wonder if Anchee Min sees everything
on the internet. Though she now sees the strangeness
of Mao's teachings, does she still have a tug to follow
the things he said, to respect the Red Army and destroy
any bourgeois ideals within herself? I read a Mao quote
once; it claimed that America was a paper tiger, and that
it was his followers' job to tear it to pieces. Yet another
article on Yahoo! News questioned the Tiger's authenticity,
its truthfulness. It seems that even America itself must
face the white tiger that its claimed to be.