https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/17...lah-blah-blah/
Assistant-professor Dan Hassler-Forest die mediawetenschappen doceert aan de universiteit van Utrecht schreef o.m. het volgende in een opiniestuk voor The Washington Post,
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The Lion King introduces us to a society where the weak have learned to worship at the feet of the strong. As we watch the herbivores congregate to bow down before their newborn ruler, ‘The Lion King’ presents a seductive worldview in which absolute power goes unquestioned and the weak and the vulnerable are fundamentally inferior. In other words: ‘The Lion King’ offers us fascist ideology writ large, and there is no obvious way out for the remake.
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a variety of cute and cuddly creatures stand in for a deeply human way of organizing society. But mapping our own social hierarchies onto the pristine and ‘neutral’ animal kingdom makes these power dynamics seem natural, common-sense and even desirable. And by using predator-prey relationships to allegorize human power structures, the film almost inevitably incorporates a worldview in which the rulers’ power derives from their biological superiority.
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Hebben we de piek van de poco-gekte al meegemaakt of gaan we nog verder in uncharted territory?