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does the meat-processing segment from Wonder Showzen come to mind, as I’m sure it must for most readers, with the cheerful voice over “This is how we learn to kill” as children tour the killing and flesh-packaging factory?
Who knows? I suppose one would be angry and irritable, if that deceptive and defensive lesson was the best one could muster as a parent. But as compensation, his antics must be cool, or comforting, or appealing in some way to audiences, as evidenced by the popularity of the program. And some will yet claim that television does not serve pressing needs.
