Computerandvideogames.com has an interview with Lorne Lanning.
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I enjoyed this comment by Lanning:
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I remember the subtle propaganda of Spielberg's ET, where the students have to dissect a frog in class. There's a history of that, of desensitisation, in the American system. A child doesn't learn anything by cutting open a frog - what he learns is to not care about killing. What he did beautifully is that, because the kids have got ET at home, they start associating these lifeforms with a certain perspective, so they set all the frogs free. That's a huge propaganda moment, a huge anti-Western public education moment.
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I really appreciate Lorne's own propaganda -- a word I use non-pejoratively: he endeavors to open the eyes of those who take the labors and sufferings of the voiceless and unappreciated for granted.