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To: VOA; Doug Loss; KayEyeDoubleDee
Even if the writer intended a McCarthy-writers allegory, I always saw it as being like a Bugs Bunny cartoon: it works on a number of levels. It's a decent Western, it's a bit of a love story, it says something about locale control (the comment by one character about the folks in the state capitol not understanding how things worked in their town), and even a Cold-War of the USA and a very few friends staying the course against the tough Communists.

I suppose that poses something of an ethical dilemma: Are we allowed to enjoy marxist art in the event that it backfires on them?

On a not entirely unrelated note, as an adult, I was rather surprised to learn how much of the literature I was forced to read as a teenager [in government schools] had been written by out-and-out marxists: Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway...

Heck, even most of the prominent children's authors of the twentieth century were, if not marxists, at least proto-marxists: Beatrix Potter, H. G. Wells, Ursula K LeGuin, Theodore "Dr. Ted" Seuss, Bill Peet...

And if you go into a Borders or a Barnes-N-Noble [or even a public library - but look out for the sodomites waiting for you in the bathroom], searching for a book to give a child, you'll find that 100% of all children's literature written in the last 30-40 years is pure, unadulterated, politically-correct, marxist-fascist claptrap.

124 posted on 07/02/2004 1:18:48 PM PDT by SlickWillard
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To: SlickWillard
I suppose that poses something of an ethical dilemma: Are we allowed to enjoy marxist
art in the event that it backfires on them?


Although I have only one related example, I'd cast my ballot marked "yes".

Although not Marxist, about 10-15 years ago the State Fair of Oklahoma (IIRC) ran
a newspaper advertisement with a nice drawing of a cowpoke relaxing while
leaning against a wall with his cowboy hat pulled low over his face.

I'm no artist, but I immediately liked it and then it dawned on me that the
style of the drawing was a LOT like some of the very stylized Nazi propaganda art.
So here I was, enjoying a nice bit of artwork, knowing that it imitated
a style of the Nazis (accidentally or not).

Sadly, this was near the time that Political Correctness had penetrated
the heartland...and the advert was pulled and an apology made in a few days.

Censorship without the brain engaged...
126 posted on 07/02/2004 1:41:32 PM PDT by VOA
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