[lit-ideas] resentment
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:43:42 -0500
>> ... must ipso facto be
monsters of greed and depravity.
Agreed! We can indulge a certain modal fictionalism and see how we
implicitly engage with certain human types -- more from pop culture than
from our own experience. Imagine these subverted stereotypes as capsule
movie plots:
(a) A narrow-minded and selfish old American Indian Chief learns the
meaning of life from a wise, young CEO who is in touch with nature and
can talk to animals.
(b) Two gay men meet, fall in love, and start a business together. The
business and the romance fail, not because of any social stigma or
public disapproval, but because the men are promiscuous and too
emotionally immature to sustain a relationship.
(c) An idealistic Harvard intellectual travels to Appalachia to teach
public school in a culturally deprived area. Mingling with the common
folk, he quickly discovers how essentially vile and worthless they are.
He never earns their respect and they ultimately kill him.
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