In praise of blasphemy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1389196,00.html
A multicultural society needs not more taboos but more tolerance for
taboo-breaking
Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday January 13, 2005
The Guardian
Last Saturday, BBC2 showed a brilliant piece of musical theatre. Jerry
Springer - The Opera was obscene, offensive, blasphemous; and the BBC
was absolutely right to broadcast it. Right because the obscenity,
offensiveness and blasphemy are used not just to entertain, but to
convey a disturbing message about American-style popular television
culture and the emotional emptiness of an atomised consumer society in
which, as one chorus refrain has it, life means to "eat, excrete and
watch TV".
Timothy Garton Ash
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