File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0007, message 105


Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:27:12 -0400
From: mat catastrophe <tmpeery-AT-sdf.lonestar.org>
Subject: Interesting article on Survivor


For those of you in the States, this shouldn't need any background info,
but in order to make sure that the following post is worthwhile to
everyone:

"Survivor" is a TV show in America that purports to be a contest in
which several people try to survive and cope with other strangers on a
"deserted" island (deserted except for a large camera crew and other
technical people).

The gist of the game is that only one person will make it, after all the
others have been voted off the island. This has apparently given rise to
what www.mired.com is calling "fascism." I don't watch the show, so I
can't really tell how much of what is described is really happening or
not (mired tends to write pieces that bend the truth, although those
satire pieces are usually extreme, such as the article "Gates Steps
Down, Buys Cuban Boy")

Here's the link for the article, entitled, "Survivor: Fascism in Action"

http://www.mired.com/pipe/pipe_07_13_2000.html

excerpt:
"Whatever happens, it’s interesting – and more than a little depressing
– to see, a half-century after the Nazis considered sending European
Jews to a far-off island before deciding upon the "final solution,"
American adults so easily and comfortably taking up the comforting logic
of fascism as a way to 'Outwit, Outplay, Outlast.'"

Just thought I'd pass this along....

mat


   

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