I'm not sure what's more depressing - the inferrence that many parents watched it and still feed crap to their brats, or that those millions who have switched didn't know beforehand what poison they were dolingout. No doubt their heads are filled with trivia. Or, alternatively, they have now swallowed the propaganda hook, line and sinker, without considering that a bit of junk now and again for convenience ain't going to kill anybody.
Meanwhile in other news, Rowan Williams says it's about time adults grow up
Some interesting thoughts - but he's wrong on the Welfare-to-Work issue. Perhaps he would like to see all women at home, financially dependent upon their husbands, regardless of the age of their children. Many mothers - and, in some cases, fathers - would like to take responsibility and get back into the workplace, but need a bit of a helping hand
It has served importantly as a corrective to a passive attitude, but, insofar as it presumes that economic productivity is where we all ought to end up, irrespective of our nurturing and forming responsibilities, as a society it isn't enough productivity and too little on persuading them to develop nurturing skills for their children's sake.
Of course it isn't enough. He clearly hasn't heard of Surestart, which the Tories would scrap. For generations and generations ordinary people combined parenthood with working - my mother said she was the first person in her family to be a stay-at-home mother.
But whether the god-botherers like it or not, we live in a fundamentally capitalist society where economic activity is essential for survival. Not exclusively so, which is what he's hinting at, but still essential.
