{"id":85689,"date":"2015-05-13T09:21:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T13:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=85689"},"modified":"2015-05-13T12:37:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T16:37:42","slug":"the-totalitarian-tank-engine-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/13\/the-totalitarian-tank-engine-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Totalitarian Tank Engine, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_85691\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/thomas-5_3300713b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85691\" class=\"wp-image-85691\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/thomas-5_3300713b.jpg\" alt=\"thomas-5_3300713b\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/thomas-5_3300713b.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/thomas-5_3300713b-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas: a thinly veiled work of socialist realism? Image via the <em>Telegraph<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>As Thomas the Tank Engine turns seventy, it\u2019s worth asking: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/11597925\/Why-do-so-many-liberal-parents-hate-Thomas-the-Tank-Engine.html\" target=\"_blank\">What\u2019s this talking train\u2019s political agenda<\/a>? A thoughtless pushover, fearful of going off the rails and fixed on his cohort\u2019s industriousness, \u201cThomas resembles one of those preposterous idealized figures of Stalinist propaganda. Face radiant with a dream of heightened productivity. In fact, Stalin would probably have approved of Thomas, who always does what the Fat Controller tells him and strongly disapproves of other engines who step out of line.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>If society seems increasingly illiterate to you, person of letters, remember that society relies less on literacy every year: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/05\/10\/why-kim-kardashian-can-t-write-good.html\" target=\"_blank\">Most human beings worldwide would rather talk than read<\/a>. Reading and writing are late inventions in the human story; widespread literacy in most places is only a few centuries old. And the fact that in black-and-white pictures of a commuter train almost every passenger is reading was an artifact of the technological state of things at the time. Today, most of those people\u2019s equivalents are either talking on their phone or listening to music on it. Their forebears in those pictures would have been as well, if there had been devices to allow it.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Piero di Cosimo is remembered most for his religious paintings, but he also made \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/gallery\/2015\/may\/07\/piero-di-cosimo\/\" target=\"_blank\">startlingly vivid portraits of individuals<\/a><em> \u2026 <\/em>He gave himself the same tests, again and again, though he did not always pass them: for example, depicting feet, which he did in an elegantly detailed manner, down to their splayed toes.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen I began my first novel \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2015\/05\/all-the-years-ahead-on-committing-literary-suicide.html\" target=\"_blank\">I asked my colleague whether writing fiction caused manic-depression<\/a> or merely mimicked the symptoms of manic-depression. He answered, \u2018Yes,\u2019 a cleverly enigmatic but also oddly confirming response.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/lexicon_valley\/2015\/05\/12\/mother_love_the_history_and_euphemisms_for_the_most_obscene_english_polysyllable.html?wpsrc=fol_tw\" target=\"_blank\">Want a euphemism for <em>motherfucker<\/em><\/a>? Try <em>melon-farmer<\/em>, <em>mother-fouler<\/em>, or <em>motorcycle<\/em>, and have a nice day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Thomas the Tank Engine turns seventy, it\u2019s worth asking: What\u2019s this talking train\u2019s political agenda? A thoughtless pushover, fearful of going off the rails and fixed on his cohort\u2019s industriousness, \u201cThomas resembles one of those preposterous idealized figures of Stalinist propaganda. Face radiant with a dream of heightened productivity. In fact, Stalin would probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[3156,513,18098,71,18096,18097,12927,16846,14340,53,13517,2585],"class_list":["post-85689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-communism","tag-depression","tag-euphemism","tag-fiction","tag-literacy","tag-motherfucker","tag-obscenity","tag-piero-di-cosimo","tag-propaganda","tag-reading","tag-stalin","tag-thomas-the-tank-engine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is Thomas a Totalitarian Tank Engine?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The children\u2019s lit icon, now seventy, has some suspicious politics. 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