“Ariel Dorfman, a TomDispatch regular, is the Chilean-American author of Death and the Maiden. His latest novel is The Suicide Museum. He divides his time between Chile and Durham, North Carolina, where he is the Walter Hines Pages Emeritus Professor at Duke University.”
(Bio from TomDispatch)
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Duck! Walt Disney and Salvador Allende are still fighting for our souls
The critique of Disney that Armand and I laid out so long ago still has a certain potency. The values symbolized in those now-ancient comic books continue to underwrite the social order (or do I mean disorder?) that’s moving us towards ultimate self-destruction globally.
December 3, 2023
