ENG140Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Glasnost, Mikhail Gorbachev, Agoraphobia
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Problem: melting pot, american dream, city on a hill. Think of the text as a solution manual. Binaries forms of thought as limiting and unjust. Characters become more interconnected dialogue and connection. Both parts have their own structure and character. Important because of the binary way of thinking. Links containment of disease to containment of other fears. Containment was used in describing cold war policy threat of communism. Containment is the idea that there is some sort of viral presence in the body of the body politic that has to be proscribed or isolated or crushed. Containment demonizes the otherit;s a politics that comes completely out of fear as opposed to out of hope. Millennium approaches approach of the millennium, apocalyptic feelings. People use the millennium to take stock. Danger and change will bring about positive change. 60s - 80s was marked by cold war and increased tensions. After 1985, there was a shift between us and ussr.
