Well-written, and extremely good points, if rather... Depressing.
I guess that is why this is such a popular "pop culture" trope, from Annie through Disney Star Wars, through Cold Case (as I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, it's a damn good episode), through bloody Stuart Little, of all things...
It's clearly part of the "human condition", as you point out, and as unfortunate as that is... Maybe even part of the "animal condition", more broadly...
It's just unfortunate that "modern society" has to... Intellectualise, institutionalise, and bastardize even this...
That's the problem with bureaucracy, innit? It absolutely just has to get its tendrils into every. single. last. thing...
Also, if we're doing "pop culture recommendations" - Rabbit Proof Fence and Oranges and Sunshine are both very good Australian movies that, uhh, address different aspects of this chit, and the way it impacts upon society, as regards two very different "cultures", both at a similar time in Aus history...
Well-written, and extremely good points, if rather... Depressing.
I guess that is why this is such a popular "pop culture" trope, from Annie through Disney Star Wars, through Cold Case (as I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, it's a damn good episode), through bloody Stuart Little, of all things...
It's clearly part of the "human condition", as you point out, and as unfortunate as that is... Maybe even part of the "animal condition", more broadly...
It's just unfortunate that "modern society" has to... Intellectualise, institutionalise, and bastardize even this...
That's the problem with bureaucracy, innit? It absolutely just has to get its tendrils into every. single. last. thing...
Also, if we're doing "pop culture recommendations" - Rabbit Proof Fence and Oranges and Sunshine are both very good Australian movies that, uhh, address different aspects of this chit, and the way it impacts upon society, as regards two very different "cultures", both at a similar time in Aus history...