Ch 15, pages 367/368

[rich]

It's like she's saying, Isn't it adorable how the TV gave us this
little island of vacuous wet dreams and replaced our real history so
we could gurgle and smile while we got screwed. But maybe this is
getting at something more primal. Maybe it is about the desire to
infantilize the people we love and even love itself. Ooh, ooh, ooh,
baby ,baby.
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Grandmas do have the tendency to infantilize their grandchildren. They
want to hang on to those precious first impressions, the promise of
spring, hope for the future. Thing is, many of these earliest
impressions of children—the tabula rosa of a child's mind— have been
co-opted by media messages, the propaganda of beer commercials and the
lifestyles of the Brady Bunch.
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easy for a man to say, fellas--the co-option of expressions of love
for children bu corporate whores does not make that expression a bad
thing, especially by all members of the distaff line down the ages

sounds like yr equating gilligan's island or the brady bunch with
truimph of the will-- that's pretty deranged

don't forget the heavy satire in Vineland--we're talking Pynchon
here--a man I bet has a soft spot for these ridiculous 60s shows

besides growing up with one armed images of marcia brady and not leni
reifenstahl was a blessing

returning to my hole

rich