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Team Rodent

How Disney Devours the World

By Carl Hiaasen

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| Paperback | 9780345422804

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"Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil; so uniformly efficient and courteous, so dependably clean and conscientious, so unfailingly entertaining that it's unreal, and therefore is an agent of pure wickedness. . . . Disney isn't in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striContinue

"Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil; so uniformly efficient and courteous, so dependably clean and conscientious, so unfailingly entertaining that it's unreal, and therefore is an agent of pure wickedness. . . . Disney isn't in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striving to improve upon it, constantly fine-tuning God's work."
--from TEAM RODENT

TEAM RODENT
How Disney Devours America

"Revulsion is good. Revulsion is healthy. Each of us has limits, unarticulated boundaries of taste and tolerance, and sometimes we forget where they are. Peep Land is here to remind us; a fixed compass point by which we can govern our private behavior. Because being grossed out is essential to the human experience; without a perceived depravity, we'd have nothing against which to gauge the advance or decline of culture; our art, our music, our cinema, our books. Without sleaze, the yardstick shrinks at both ends. Team Rodent doesn't believe in sleaze, however, nor in old-fashioned revulsion. Square in the middle is where it wants us all to be, dependable consumers with predictable attitudes. The message, never stated but avuncularly implied, is that America's values ought to reflect those of the Walt Disney Company, and not the other way around."

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  • Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World

    Review-a-Day Saturday, May 25th, 2002 Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World by Carl Hiaasen A review by Chris Bolton I despise corporations. All of them. And despite a rare humanistic turn in granting health benefits to the companions of gay empl ... (read full critics)

    powells published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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  • Hilarious and interesting. The under-belly of Disney is very interesting. Part of the Library of Contemporary Thought Series. I wouldn't mind reading more of these.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 96 Pages
  • Edition: 1ST
  • ISBN-10: 0345422805
  • ISBN-13: 9780345422804
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • Pub date: May 05, 1998
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Audio Cassette and Others
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