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<blockquote data-quote="Mork from Ork" data-source="post: 1987293347">This fits with Morrissey's world view. He has a strange but consistent mid 20th century picture of what the world should be. It crops up over and over in his work, aesthetic choices and statements. England is white people in terraced houses playing football in black and white photographs. Italy is well dressed men riding Vespa scooters. Mexico is full of lovably poor and simple people. The Middle East is the sound of I Will See You in Far-Off Places. America is where battles over civil rights are fought. The rest of the world is just to foreign for him to even grapple with in any meaningful way. It is all very neat and tidy for him. It is also infantilizing and simplistic. He romanticizes poverty Mexico but glamour in Italy. The struggle he supports in America mirrors the one he denounces in England. Is it hateful? I don't know. Is it accurate, nuanced or in touch with people's lives? Absolutely not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mork from Ork, post: 1987293347"] This fits with Morrissey's world view. He has a strange but consistent mid 20th century picture of what the world should be. It crops up over and over in his work, aesthetic choices and statements. England is white people in terraced houses playing football in black and white photographs. Italy is well dressed men riding Vespa scooters. Mexico is full of lovably poor and simple people. The Middle East is the sound of I Will See You in Far-Off Places. America is where battles over civil rights are fought. The rest of the world is just to foreign for him to even grapple with in any meaningful way. It is all very neat and tidy for him. It is also infantilizing and simplistic. He romanticizes poverty Mexico but glamour in Italy. The struggle he supports in America mirrors the one he denounces in England. Is it hateful? I don't know. Is it accurate, nuanced or in touch with people's lives? Absolutely not. [/QUOTE]

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