Bill Elder

2016-08-17 11:52:36 -0400

Animal house was about how non conformity and independent thinking are paramont to a free society – it is important to instill a natural distrust/loathing of abusive authority and manipulative pop culture memes and do what is best for you – it’s about how it is always better to swim out of the mainstream and follow the school to avoid being swept into the rapids – most of all it’s about individualism, a concept lost in the collectivist narratives of post constitutional America.



It’s about how even social outcasts (individualism) can change corrupting influences – the movie theme has a lot in common with Revenge of the Nerds – same social outcast idividualism meets elitist pop culture and authority.



As for the other comedy Doug Kenny wrote has a similar theme about individualists and social outcasts against the establishment – total opposite to Millennial chic which celebrates their conformity and comfort with overbearing authority. Sad really.



Side note: Doug Kenny ( Animal house screen writer) was a founder of the classic National Lampoon humor Magazine and Nat Lamp radio hour, Animal house was taken from a 4 part strory published in National Lampoon about a charcter named “Pinto” and the Alpha Delta Phi alumnus – National Lampoon was a golden era of sophomoric satire with the greatest humorists America has produced since Twain – but we will never their like see again because of the tyranny of PC which the animal house guys fought against.

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