Re: Lolita
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 22:49:16 -0500 (EST)
Oh Gawd, guys, there's nothing worse than political "ANAL-ysis" that
can't see politics from more than one point of view.
The SAME PROBLEM exists on the left AND the right (in America, at least).
It's part of the "cultural war" rhetoric that the right in America has
been espousing. But from whatever side you approach the issue, you
interpret all morality within the context of your narrow concerns and
have no qualms whatsoever about forcing your views upon the majority
through the government. The right is, indeed, more puritanical and
defines morality in terms of personal purity. But the left is simply
Marxist and defines morality exclusively in social terms. Thus a right
wing person will advocate the censorship of art because it's sexually
explicit, while the left will defend sexually explicit art yet advocate
the censorship of work that appears misogynist.
The best way to see how America's popular morality has changed over the
years is to watch Disney movies. "Pinnochio" was written from a puritan
standpoint and defined morality in terms of personal purity. Don't lie,
don't drink, don't smoke, don't cuss. It's modern counterpart --
"Pocohontas" -- defines morality in social terms and is concerned with
accepting groups different from one's own.
Jim
"The written word is a power of such magnitude that only pedants would
try to reduce it to rules. Or the French."
--F.K.
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 22:19:06 -0500 (EST) Pierrot65@aol.com writes:
>Camille --
>
>Love Peter Carey to pieces, that's why I mentioned him. I actually
>read Tim
>Winton too -- The Riders, no? (For the rest of you, a story of a
>father and
>his daughter whose mother abandons them in their new place in Ireland.
>Quite
>damned touching & well-written). Not to mention Jane Campion, the
>lovely
>Blanchett lass ... and on and on.
> What's going on with the return to Puritanism everywhere?
>Jesus, it almost
>scares me as much as the militias here and the general politics of the
>Indian
>subcontinent in ... well, the Indian subcontinent. What the hell's
>going on?
>
>rick
>
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