Most people appreciate that Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a great movie. Some people don't get that.
Much of the objection to the movie is fueled by anger at its supposed conservatism. But it isn't really a conservative movie and it is important to note why.
Bueller is a movie that mocks the moral authority of adults from beginning to end. No conservative movie would do that.
And it wasn't just that movie, there was a strong current of that sort of mockery running through the late 1980s and well into the 1990s. I rewatched the pilot of Dawson's Creek made twelve years after Bueller and the same moral unreliability of adults prevails. Any true conservative would bemoan this and a lot of them do.
As a Crypto-Catholic Libertine, I am under no such obligation and I'd suggest that there is something important indicated here. An awful lot of the generation born roughly between between the last half of the 1960s and first half of the 1980s concluded that their parents generation weren't morally serious. I think they reached the correct conclusion.
Much of the objection to the movie is fueled by anger at its supposed conservatism. But it isn't really a conservative movie and it is important to note why.
Bueller is a movie that mocks the moral authority of adults from beginning to end. No conservative movie would do that.
And it wasn't just that movie, there was a strong current of that sort of mockery running through the late 1980s and well into the 1990s. I rewatched the pilot of Dawson's Creek made twelve years after Bueller and the same moral unreliability of adults prevails. Any true conservative would bemoan this and a lot of them do.
As a Crypto-Catholic Libertine, I am under no such obligation and I'd suggest that there is something important indicated here. An awful lot of the generation born roughly between between the last half of the 1960s and first half of the 1980s concluded that their parents generation weren't morally serious. I think they reached the correct conclusion.
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