Word: durkheimian
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After Thunderdome, Max takes a brief holiday in what seems like Walt Disney's version of Lord of the Flies. A tribe of deserted children enact with Durkheimian accuracy the ritual of their history for Max, then declare him to be their messiah. Max finds this scene to be quite annoying, as does the audience. Max states himself what the focus of a Mad Max movie should be when he declares that he is not a childrens' messiah, but rather, "the guy who keeps Mr. Death in his pocket." (Would that the directors had kept to that focus...
Obviously not happy with the left or the right, Ginsberg shuns talk of political protest; instead his themes run the gamut of psycho-sociological critique. In something of a Durkheimian manner, his poems mourn the depersonalization and breakdown of non-business community ties that spring from the industrialization, specialization and corporate demeanor of modern society...
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