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June 22 ,1988 – Roger Rabbit on forced consumption (and so on to #climate apocalypse)

On this day, June 22 1988 the film   Who Framed Roger Rabbit  was released. 

I walked out the first time I saw it, because I was an eighteen year old moron with no idea of what he was seeing.  

Anyway, spoilers – this is an homage to Chinatown, but with cartoons’s about a conspiracy to kill off public transport and force everyone into cars.

And there’s folks out there who will quibble (waves at Cameron) or, in fact present counter-arguments, but you know, National City Lines was a thing. This sort of stuff does, in essence, happen.  

If you like your politics and economics in cartoon form.

Why this matters. 

These are cognitive maps, if we choose to use them. Mostly we choose not to. So it goes.

What happened next?

Los Angeles. Bless it.

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