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America Since Its “Pleasantville” Fifties: Cultural Rebirth Aborted, Changing of the Guard Denied, The Elders on Life Support, and the Abomination Fills the Land

Posted on July 18, 2012 by sillymickel

Culture War, Class War Chapter Seven: Cultural Rebirth, Aborted It’s a (Not So) Wonderful Life…for the World War Two Generation Compared to Their Boomer Children War Compelled the Dashing of Dreams for WWII Gen Youth – It’s a Not-So Wonderful … Continue reading →

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“The Awakening” in America’s Not-So “Pleasantville”: Evolved Parenting Results in Authenticity Rising and Defeat of the Body Snatchers

Posted on July 16, 2012 by sillymickel

Culture War, Class War, Chapter Six: “Pleasantville” as Culture War Allegory To Follow or Not Follow “the Script” in America’s Not-So “Pleasantville” “Pleasantville” as Culture War Allegory: Thinking for Oneself Gets You “Colorized” Not So “Pleasantville” The film, “Pleasantville,” is … Continue reading →

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Birthing Into the Media and the Perinatal Zeitgeist of Postmodern Culture: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born But Were Afraid to Ask

Posted on June 19, 2012 by sillymickel

Apocalypse No! Chapter Eight: The Perinatal Media ET, Phone Mom – Of Aliens, Toothy Vaginas, Satanic Cults, and Explosions: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born With these elements of birth experience in mind, let us look at … Continue reading →

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Through the Looking Glass Into Parallel Universes…But “There’s No Place Like Home”: Perinatal Media, Part 6

Posted on March 25, 2012 by sillymickel

Perinatal Media, Part Six: Through the Looking Glass Into Parallel Universes, But “There’s No Place Like Home” Origins of Parallel Universes But this idea of something coming through the walls, membrane walls, is both fascinating and telling in the … Continue reading →

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Zombie Apocalypse vs the WWW, Dangers and Prospects in the Post-WWII Gen World… The King’s Gotta Die Sometime!

Posted on November 18, 2011 by sillymickel

The King’s Gotta Die Sometime! Prospects and Dangers in the Post-WWII-Generation World However much we cannot know the future, and despite the seeds of WWII Generation values left incubating in the minds of Eighties and Fifties Generation members and emerging … Continue reading →

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The King Refuses to Die: Aborted Changing of the Guard, Abortion of Cultural Rebirth

Posted on November 16, 2011 by sillymickel

Abortion of Cultural Rebirth, Aborted Changing of the Guard – The King Refuses to Die The American Tienanmen Square—Culture War The events in China’s Tiananmen Square more than twenty years ago so affected and still affects some of us here … Continue reading →

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Abortion of Cultural Rebirth Always Begins With a Conservative Backlash by The “Religious Wrong”

Posted on November 15, 2011 by sillymickel

A Conservative Backlash by The “Religious Wrong”‘ Attempts to Abort the Generational Changing of the Guard in America’s “Pleasantville” “You Can’t Legislate Morals” With the support of the Chamber of Commerce, we know Big Bob has the power to do … Continue reading →

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Good Old Boys Are Always the Last to Learn in America’s “Pleasantville”: Prince in Exile and The Hundredth Monkey

Posted on November 13, 2011 by sillymickel

The Hundredth Monkey: Good Old Boys Are Always the Last to Learn in America’s “Pleasantville” The Sixties Generation Arrived It is significant that the protagonist of change in the movie “Pleasantville” would be a young male, Bud (David). This is … Continue reading →

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Pleasantville” and “Yellow Submarine”: The WWII Generation World of “Blue Meanies” and “Nowhere Men” vs. “The Awakening”

Posted on November 10, 2011 by sillymickel

“The Awakening” in a WWII Generation World of “Blue Meanies” and “Nowhere Men” … “Yellow Submarine” … “Pleasantville” Blue Meanies The 1998 movie, “Pleasantville,”thematically, is remarkably akin to the 1968-released movie “Yellow Submarine” put out by the Sixties Generation rock … Continue reading →

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The Preeminence of Inner Authority – Authenticity Rising: Reversing the Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Posted on November 9, 2011 by sillymickel

The Preeminence of Inner Authority – Authenticity Rising: Reversing the Invasion of the Body Snatchers Reversing the Invasion of the Body Snatchers Concerning the movie “Pleasantville,” noted movie critic Roger Ebert quite astutely pointed out that it was “like the … Continue reading →