The most interesting parts of the Disney DVDs Kim got for Christmas -- one a collection of 30s Mickey Mouse shorts, one a collection of programs promoting Disneyland -- are two incidents that never, never, never could make it into a Disney production today:
1) Goofy is going fishing, and he uses chewing tobacco as bait. The fish chew the tobacco, savor it, then spit it back at Goofy.
2) On a live TV program at the opening of Disneyland, an interviewer is talking to a female celebrity who is driving around one of those kiddie racetracks. After the celebrity drives away the interviewer says something close to, "Like on the real road, we have to give these female drivers a little extra room."
The artifacts are amusing, but here's the kicker: it's certain that there's a number of ideals that seem quite normal in 2002, but will seem at least near-horrific in 2052. (Tobacco in a kid's show certainly would seem full-fledged horrific today, though that cartoon's a bit older than 50.) No, wait, here's the kicker: We have no idea what these beliefs might be. Obviously, the mainstreaming of gay society over the past 10 years will show a difference in attitudes between, say, 1970 and 2020, but what statements that I make today will look (at best) uncouth or (at worst) bigoted after 50 years of reflection and progress?
I'll share a couple ideas on this tomorrow, and you know where to sendyours.
oh so lovingly written by
Matthew |
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
