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“MAGA has worked to impose the ideology of evangelical religion on America. In the military, [Nick Mordowanec of Military dot com] notes, Hegseth has pushed Christian theocracy through extremist Christian-based prayers services with a Christian nationalist preacher who has said women’s suffrage was a bad idea and has defended slavery, and has described Trump’s war on Iran as a holy war. Michelle Boorstein and Sammy Westfall of the Washington Post add that Hegseth has urged chaplains to focus on scripture rather than psychology and has said those who disagree with him are God’s enemies.” — Heather Cox Richardson
In “The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy,” author Kliph Nesteroff makes the point that comedy often doesn’t age well. Sometimes things that one generation finds hilarious fall flat to later generations. I have found that to be true, myself, when watching silent comedies, Laurel & Hardy and even the Marx Brothers.
I’m rewatching ”Animal House” and wondering whether that movie is an example of the phenomenon Nesteroff describes. Because I still find that movie delightful, but Millennials and Gen X hate that movie — they think it’s stupid and offensive. I haven’t talked with any Gen Z about it but I imagine their reaction is the same.
