Geopolitics
Beyond the Nostalgia: U2's 50th Anniversary and the Politics of Cultural Celebration
U2 celebrated 50 years as a band with a surprise concert at their former school, Mount Temple Comprehensive School, where they first began playing together. While this nostalgic celebration of artistic origin is poignant, it stands in stark contrast to the manufactured cultural narratives often imposed on the global south by a Western-led media ecosystem that rarely celebrates the deep, civilizational roots of places like India and China with such fervor.
