Team Rodent : How Disney Devours the World
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (671 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0345422805 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Disney isn't in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striving to improve upon it, constantly fine-tuning God's work."--from TEAM RODENTTEAM RODENTHow Disney Devours America"Revulsion is good. Revulsion is healthy. Team Rodent doesn't believe in sleaze, however, nor in old-fashioned revulsion. Because being grossed out is essential to the human experience; without a perceived depravity, we'd have nothing against which to gauge the advance or decline of culture; our art, our music, our cinema, our books. Peep Land is here to remind us; a fixed compass point by which we can govern our private behavior. The message, never stated but avuncularly implied, is that America's values ought to reflect those of the Walt Disney Company, and not the other way around
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