I think you’ll agree, after watching this so-called “children’s film”, there must be something worthy of deconstruction if not prosecution as hate speech:
Heidi
We’re finally rid of these bad old days thanks to the great work of the Frankfurt School!
The SPLC and ADL must be alerted to the sewage gushing forth from the Internet into the personal computer media players of children around the world.
Posted by Guessedworker on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:36 | #
Well, that’s the first little lassies’ film I’ve sat through for a fair few years. But yes, James you’re right. Love of the soil and Nature, love of and loyalty to family, sexual continence, personal honour, courage, trust ... the moral life underpinning the story was no more than “living justly and right” in 1880, when the book was written. Bill made the point on another thread that those born in or before the 1950s were raised in the failing light of that world. My own childhood was certainly closer to that world than to the one we inhabit today.
To the extent that the morality of those times flowed from the European sociobiology - and I happen to think it is quite considerable - it is still there, of course. The pathologies of the present can be sloughed off within a generation or two, even within a decade or two. They mean nothing. But, of course, we have to survive.