Re: Questions about episode of Star Trek: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"

From: Bill Schaffer [[email protected]]

This kind of reading which attempts to correlate a text with an historically determined allegorical content seems perfectly arbitrary to me. The procedure seems to involve selecting a privileged reference and then framing and filtering the content to fit. "Allegory" means 'reading otherwise' and once you've opened that box any attempt to select one 'other reading' is as valid as just about any other. I don't see how this achieves anything other than confirming the picture one already has of a more or less arbitrarily conceived 'context'. The context and the text dutifully  reflect each other endlessly to confirm a preconceived hypothesis.

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