Inventing the ChildTo use the type of language that quickly becomes familiar to a reader of this book:
The dominant culture reproduces itself by telling itself stories about itself. These stories tell of the rightness of obedience to authority, of the natural order of hierarchy, of power, of the obvious right of the strong to use violence and force to coerce the weak, of the need of the subjugated to be controlled. Children learn these stories, which reinforce the realities that they themselves experience and that they see around them.
By telling these stories about children (or stand-ins for children, as... more »
Here's a
post-apocalyptic road movie created straight from the heart. The score
is terrific -- an ideological and artistic mash-up of 50's rock and
Sputnik-era Soviet optimism. Mad Max meets Shane meets Viva Las Vegas.