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...Papi’s public disrobing this summer wasn’t tragic or shocking so much as it was timely. Papi’s innocence is just the latest in a string of Emperor??s-New-Clothes-like illusions that have marked the past decade and which have been steadily, albeit sometimes painfully, revealed with varying degrees of feigned and genuine surprise...
...Stuff of Thought,” Steven Pinker talks about the fable of The Emperor??s New Clothes: “Every onlooker knew that the king was naked, but they had no way of being sure that the others knew, and so were intimidated into silence. All it took was for one boy to say ‘The emperor has no clothes!’ and the crowd burst into laughter. Crucially, the boy was not telling a single person anything he didn’t already know. But his words still conveyed information. The information...
...joke, but if everyone stays quiet or laughs politely, the jokes will keep getting made. She must speak up and bring to the collective conscious of the room the unacceptability of bigotry. He does not want her to change their minds: he wants her to be an emperor?...
...candid dinner party guest in the social dialogue over anti-Semitism in the 1940s. Indeed, in changing our attitudes about issues like race, religion, and sexuality—and in changing the content of our everyday political and social dialogue—popular culture consistently plays the part of emperor??s boy, one loud enough for all of us to hear...
...Court to make policies that lead us to better beliefs. But we also need popular culture. It doesn’t tell us what to think—it tells us that others think what we think, too. It is the voice of the silent majority; it is the emperor?...