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AGAINST_THE_WALL_OF_DAY

                                    January 15, 2013


Every now and then,              TRASHING_KAEL
Kael has a good line:

  "Do even Disney movies or Doris
  Day movies do us lasting harm?"      How can you possibly complain
                                       about "2001"s mystical alien
But can we *prove* that Doris          overlords encouraging passivity
Day does not damage us?  Is it         and skip "Que Sera Sera".
worth the risk?
                                                                  Hitchcock's
  "... they may poison us                                         worst blunder.
  collectively though they
  don’t injure us individually."         Well okay... so it's
                                         possible to damage the
     Here at last, Kael admits that      group and leave the
     *there is something at stake*.      individuals intact?
     Truly bad art really can have
     a bad effect: lowering the              An interesting thought:
     "tone" of a culture.                    a disease of the connections
                                             between nodes that leaves
                                             the nodes untouched...
  "I’ve avoided using the term
  'harmless trash' for movies like               An assault on the
  'The Thomas Crown Affair,'                     social fabric?
  because that would put me on the
  side of the angels-- against                         (Something like
  'harmful trash,' and I don’t                          Republican
  honestly know what that is."                          libertarians...)

                Doris Day!
                How could you    (Can Kael go
                forget?          for an entire
                                 paragraph
                                 without a
                                 contradiction?)


                                                And remember: Doris Day
                 BAD_TASTE                      doesn't just happen.
                                                *People* make Doris Day
                                                happen.



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