Friday 19 February 2010

Goode's Pertinent Binary




Hooray! Chris Goode* is back on the blog: 
"I sometimes have recourse to what I take to be one of the most pertinent binaries in contemporary culture: the underlying social philosophies of, on the one hand, Disney, and on the other, Sesame Street. In Disney World (or Land or whichever you prefer), "it's a small world after all": people are all basically the same, once you get past their superficial differences. This is Peter Brook's line, and it ends up being a reason to not bother trying to penetrate those superficialities: which is why 11 & 12 is so unbelievably gay. On Sesame Street, the message is not that everyone is the same, but conversely, that everyone is different, and it's your job to deal with that." 

 "The Persauders" Charlie White


 * That link doesn't seem to work. Mm. Okay, it was meant to take you here: 
 https://beescope.blogspot.com/2010/02/can-you-guess-which-kid-is-doing-his.html

... Still not working - Oh just copy and paste it. Maybe I've been infected by a poem.

(originally posted on myspace) 

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