Comments on: Training young capitalist pigs? http://globalspin.com/2004/07/training-young-capitalist-pigs/ a glimpse into the tiny mind of Chris Radcliff Sat, 01 May 2010 03:53:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 By: Chris http://globalspin.com/2004/07/training-young-capitalist-pigs/comment-page-1/#comment-479 Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:28:21 +0000 http://globalspin.com/wp/2004/07/24/372/#comment-479 Hear, hear. The writer of this “literary criticism” seems to have trouble with the idea of reality. How does a private boarding school, magic or no, have “nothing in common with our own” world? In fact, aside from the fantastic elements that make this a *story*, isn’t the appeal of Harry Potter that his world is so identifiable?

That aside, the whole premise is ludicrous. If the books are capitalist indoctrination, why are the heroes either orphans, outcasts, or poor kids with hand-me-downs? How is it that the richest, most established families in the book are the villains, openly reviled by all our protagonists?

We won’t even get into the implication that competition is inherently bad (or somehow imposed on us by Our Corporate Overlords). Or how this “pitiless jungle where competition, violence and the cult of winning run riot” frequently rewards meek characters like Neville Longbottom or Ginny Weasley.

Sorry, Steve, it’s just inflammatory hogwash. Pun intended.

]]> By: Deb http://globalspin.com/2004/07/training-young-capitalist-pigs/comment-page-1/#comment-478 Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:28:37 +0000 http://globalspin.com/wp/2004/07/24/372/#comment-478 So where is the essay claiming Harry is an “antiglobalist crusader?”

Wow; couldn’t possibly be that the Harry Potter stories reflect the world-as-it-is with the “what if” of magic thrown in. Don’t see how that is “training” our youth any more than, say, Disney.

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