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Jim Beam shutting down bourbon production at Kentucky distillery for a year as Trump’s trade wars hit sales
(www.independent.co.uk)
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While it's certainly true that Jim Beam can no longer honestly keep the label of 'all American' due to corporate structure, they have kept up much of the American tradition and culture around Kentucky bourbon by generally letting them run autonomously. However, to your point, that's definitely not guaranteed to continue-especially if profits are gonna start being fucked with. American jobs and culture are under pressure from both trump and outside corporate organizations. It was already insulting enough that a faceless corporation took it upon itself to be a steward of a part of American culture and history, but then the shameless sellout? It's that irresponsible behavior that makes these corporations so inherently unreliable and untrustworthy no matter how faithful they may act for however long.
If you've never seen it, watch Ned Beatty's speech from the movie Network.
https://youtu.be/35DSdw7dHjs
The whole movie is excellent, and went from cutting edge satire to quaint docudrama in real time.
Interesting. I should look it up for sure. While I'm certainly very much inherently in the camp of primarily approaching philosophy in a more traditional analytic style, I've become more appreciative of more artistic and "messy" packaging as of late, and this is certainly doing it for me. I love the absurd oversimplification disguised in rationality and nuance's clothes. All that education these douchecanoes get only to never apply that same academic rigor to their worldview.