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Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t monsters, they’re liars.

I can’t imagine how scandalized those critics who were relieved to have something that was mild enough to not excite their kids would’ve been if they’d stopped for a second and realized what was actually going on. The very first rule of Scooby-Doo, the single premise that sits at the heart of their adventures, is that the world is full of grown-ups who lie to kids, and that it’s up to those kids to figure out what those lies are and call them on it, even if there are other adults who believe those lies with every fiber of their being. And the way that you win isn’t through supernatural powers, or even through fighting. The way that you win is by doing the most dangerous thing that any person being lied to by someone in power can do: You think.

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Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism (via love-and-radiation

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(Source: comicsalliance.com, via nothing-rhymes-with-ianto)

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"Theme parks like Disneyland now simulate the experiences of space travel, submarine voyages, driving on the Autobahn, strolling through the French Quarter in New Orleans, expeditions through the “Western Frontier,” nostalgic walks down “Main Street” America, and journeys into fairy tales and children’s stories. Baudrillard argues that Disneyland is a perfect model of a simulation. Disneyland is not just simply a simulated fantasyland, but instead it is present as fantasy, which, ironically, leads us to believe that the rest of America is real. Thus for Baudrillard, in contrast to the simulated malls and theme restaurants of everyday “real life,” Disneyland is more authentic than “reality” because it does not purport to be “real."

p. 669, Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory, by Scott Appelrouth and Laura Desfor Edles

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