Sinister and frightening

Goofy, Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse according to George Monbiot. And it’s actually sinister and ‘deeply frightening’ (my emphasis) that he finds them.

What could be his reason? It’s this: ‘hegemony represented by an infantilised mouse and an infantilised duck’ – ‘the hegemony of the corporations’. In which case, the Hollywood movie presumably is also going down the tubes. Yup – ‘the little state department’, America’s ‘advance legions’.

On this basis, we’ll also have to give up on a lot of top-level sport, soft drinks, breakfast cereals, computers… you name it. Or, alternatively, George Monbiot could read a bit of Marx.

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