British
social attitudes are not cast in stone. Political opinions and social attitudes
change over time, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.
Ronnie
Barker did this sketch in 1976 on the BBC. How prescient it was. At the time,
many British people thought it hilarious, bizarre, burlesque, a comedy satire,
that no serious-minded, sane, educated person, could ever endorse. How wrong
they were. I wonder if the BBC would dare to show this now? If they did, it
would have to be accompanied by a trigger warning.
As
the French say, "comme les moutons
de Panurge", or like a flock of sheep.
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