Noam Chomsky: Deconstructing Christmas (1998)
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This PBS/WGBH special featured linguist and social commentator Chomsky sitting at a desk, explaining how the development of the commercial Christmas season directly relates to the loss of individual freedoms in the United States and the subjugation of indigenous people in southeast Asia.
Despite a rave review by Z magazine, musical guest Zach de la Rocha and the concession of Chomsky to wear a seasonal hat for a younger demographic appeal, this is known to be the least requested Christmas special ever made.
5 comments:
Given cheerful chomsky, I though the schmuck really did one. (there is NO doubt he could)
FYI, Christmas, as we know it, is a creation of Charles Dickens: the holiday, prior to A Christmas Carol, was a small event (can you say "Hannukah"?) prior to that publication.
Dickens' writing had a HUGE following and chapters of his books were scarfed up at the docks when the ships delivered them.
On the other hand, Christmas as an unbridled "peace on earth, good will toward men" is the only real cease fire in the western world... an amazing event. When for this brief period of time, kindness, smiling, good nature, is not viewed as an aberration. We cannot keep it up for long, just the few days, a week or so, but it is incredible that every year, out of the cold and dark of winter, it blooms, from nothing, and we nothing again until spring. And Easter/
I was drawn here by the number of comments :-) (there were 3...)
Well there were three.
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