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raisongardee · 2 months

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"Les marchands modernes ne veulent pas non plus que Peter grandisse. Mais ce n’est pas pour préserver son innocence, ni pour le protéger du monde du commerce ; ils veulent faire de lui leur fidèle client, exploiter sa séparation d’avec sa mère et sa famille pour mettre la main sur lui, pour le pousser à acheter cet "amusement" auquel sa jeunesse, autrefois, lui donnait accès gratuitement. Envole-toi pour le Pays imaginaire, Peter, nous t’y attendons avec tout ce que le petit garçon en toi a toujours voulu – mais attention : tu devras l’acheter avec des dollars d’adultes. Ou achète-le, dans ce pays imaginaire perverti qu’a fabriqué la marque Michael Jackson, en vendant à la fois ta famille et ton innocence. Laisse tes parents derrière toi, mais surtout n'oublie pas d’emporter ton porte-monnaie et ton érotisme corrompu."

Benjamin Barber, Comment le capitalisme nous infantilise, trad. Lise et Paul Chemla, 2007.

#benjamin barber #propagande #enfance #education #ingenierie sociale

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lewis-mumfords-ghost · 1 month

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Where democracy in its classical form meant quite literally rule by the demos, by the plebes, by the people themselves, it now often seems to mean little more than elite rule sanctioned (through the device of representation) by the people. Competing elites vie for the support of a public, whose popular sovereignty is reduced to the pathetic right to participate in choosing the tyrant who will rule it.

Benjamin R. Barber

#quote #Benjamin barber #us politics #politics #joe biden

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davidpotash · 7 months

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Thick Democracy: In and Out of the Light

We would be well served by reading, or re-reading, Benjamin Barber’s Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age. Yes, it is not a recent publication. That said, it’s as relevant as ever, perhaps even more so today than it was when first published nearly four decades ago. Barber, who passed away in 2017, was a political scientist, a political theorist, and a scholar. He wrote…

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#Benjamin Barber #Strong Democracy

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little-lovett · 7 months

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yes i’m fine sorry i was just zoning out but right before sweeney kills lucy he says “the judge… i have no time!” and mrs. lovett represents the virtue of patience in the show and she had sang a whole song telling him to wait and take things slow and relax and think through his decisions.

the thing that destroys everyone in this show is impatience. if anthony had waited before intruding on sweeney and the judge, if sweeney had stopped obsessing when and where and how he could kill the beadle and judge, if sweeney hadn’t felt suffocated by the crushing, endless force of time and looked his own little girl and his wife in the eye and really thought and reached into the soul that was still in him, sweeney todd wouldn’t be the tragedy that it is. human nature bitches human nature

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vinnystaysawake · 10 months

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ATTEND THE TALE OF SWEENY TODD

#art #artwork #my art #digital art #musical #musicals #sweeney todd #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #benjamin barker #horror #josh groban

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toaster-trash · 7 months

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“And she was beautiful, and she was virtuous, and he was nïave.”

More rough Sweeney Todd doodles

#sweeney todd #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #benjamin barker #lucy barker

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madamephantom · 10 months

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my contribution to the Sweeney Todd fandom

#sweeney todd #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #sttdbofs #sweeney todd musical #benjamin barker #lucy barker

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ourownbelovedbohemians · 2 months

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normalize being co-dependent and evil

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miss-galaxy-turtle · 18 days

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Idk if this is a hot take or not, but to me, josh groban and annaleigh ashford are to sweeney and lovett what ramin karimloo and sierra boggess are to phantom and christine

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timegays · 6 months

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i LOVE your recent sweeney art especially your barker family portraits they’re SOOOOO good oh my god. I yearn for the better kinder universe where ben barker can be a lame ass girldad in 1888 he would have loved staring out the window at the rain and going “huh. we really needed this” and braiding jo’s hair. if you would like to draw them enjoying some fun father daughter activities that would rock

SOBBING SCREAMING YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW OFTEN I TNINK ABOUT TJIS CONCEPT.

Lucy and Johanna helping mrs Lovett and Toby in the pie shop. Pirelli and Ben becoming business partners and Anthony working for them

I just want them all to be happy Augh.

#This can be taken as a he never left or a he reunited with everyone when he returned thing #I have so many sad thoughts about Sweeney when he returns to his family but that’s a post for later #Sweeney todd #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #toby sweeney todd #benjamin barker #pirelli #johanna barker #anthony hope #My art #thanks for the ask :))

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raisongardee · 3 months

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"L’égoïsme ne se drape plus dans la religion : il est devenu religion. La cupidité n’est pas seulement bonne pour moi. Le nouvel éthos veut nous faire croire qu’elle est bonne en soi, et que c’est cela qui fait son attrait, pas l’avidité."

Benjamin Barber, Comment le capitalisme nous infantilise, trad. Lise et Paul Chemla, 2007.

#benjamin barber #postmodernite #liberalisme #morale

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jobrker · 1 month

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benjamin and lucy barker.

@inanotherunivrse // moulin rouge! (2001) // unknown // unknown // stephen sondheim, sweeney todd: the demon barber of fleet street // unknown production of hamlet // aeschylus // lemony snicket, the beatrice letters // stephen sondheim, sweeney todd: the demon barber of fleet street // sweeney todd (1979) dir. harold prince // lemony snicket, the beatrice letters

#my favorite doomed couple #sweeney todd #lucy barker #benjamin barker #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #sweeney todd: the demon barber of fleet street #webweave #my edit #*mine #doomed by the narrative

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fibyd · 1 year

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#johnny depp #drawing #tim burton #sweeney todd #willy wonka #mad hatter #charlie and the chocolate factory #johnnydeppfanart #alice in wonderland #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #pirate of the caribbean #the depps #tarrant hightopp #benjamin barker #johnnydeppcharacter #willy wonka fanart

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little-lovett · 5 months

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photo on the right from @esmes

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lunarhobbits · 4 months

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misc sweeney hcs

(disclaimer. i am new-ish here and have no idea how popular/prevalent any of these are go easy on me ok. also a lot of these are dadben related wh o o p s)

i've seen some variance of if this is canon in fics and stuff but i really do like the idea of the barkers also living above the pie shop in addition to the barbershop being there. similar situation w the pie shop/lovett living quarters. ig it's just easier to picture in my head then????

(p sure the b*rton film confirms smth like this but i'm ignoring it bc i don't like that guy. this idea is mine now)

part of the reason i like this so much is it means that benjamin barker had all the more time to have lovely moments with lucy and johanna when he wasn't busy with clients

(this also makes sweeney returning there without them all the more painful. if he sits and doesn't do anything then he's flooded by memories of the life he had in those same walls fifteen years ago. like no wonder sweeney's so bent out of shape by being forced to wait for the judge and the beadle to come to him)

johanna had only JUST started walking when ben was transported. he was so excited and happy and loved to try and assist her, encouraging her to take steps holding his hands. chattering away about her with any customer that would listen, perhaps even showing her off ("look at my jo! she's such a fine girl!" "i'm sure she is, mr. barker, but could you please finish shaving me?")

he bought johanna a little lacy bonnet when she was a week old. she didn't need something so fancy at such a young age, and lucy had already sewn her a few bonnets months prior. it wasn't the most sound financial decision he ever made. but oh, his girl just had to have it, and it's a little big, she could grow into it! (lucy admits she looks very cute with it on, even though she says johanna doesn't need it)

(the bonnet is left forgotten in a drawer somewhere for years, until sweeney opens that particular drawer and finds it gathering dust upon his return. he feels sick seeing it, reminding him again how much he missed. then he puts it back and refuses to give it any mind.)

nellie lovett was infuriated by lucy barker in that way that you can't quite pinpoint why you're mad other than they're "too perfect" or "too pretty" or something. ofc there was the fact she was married to ben, but i think there was a little "get out of my school" energy going on there too

idk exactly how lucy ended up on the street (or in bedlam, as lovett says in the finale) but i do think that nellie was, sadly, at least complicit in inaction to stop this from happening (if not having thrown her out herself)

anthony is the sweetest dude around and genuinely loves johanna. doesn't matter that he barely knows her when he says he'd marry her, he knows that he's going to be happy as long as she is

johanna loves him too, and she's surprised by it. not because of anything to do with anthony, but because she's felt so little real love in her life (that she can remember). it's a wonderful and frightening rush looking at him, sometimes, but then he squeezes her hand, or does something silly, or even just sneezes or clears his throat and she's brought back down to reality, in a good way. that anthony is real, and human like her. she doesn't have to "earn" his love by being utterly perfect.

they get out of london basically as soon as they can, just wanting to leave it all behind, at least for a while

it took a little time and arguing but anthony did end up getting a good sum of money from the judge's death, through johanna's inheritance going to her husband (him). they immediately used this money to finance travel. they both love to travel, anthony promising to show her the beauty of the world that, still, cannot rival her in his eyes

this is all i got that's coherent rn really lol. anyway here you go sweeney todd fans who liked/reblogged my post haha @demonbarberofbeepbeep @captains-clever-goose @little-lovett @fabulousairpirate @funnygirlthatbelle

#sweeney todd #benjamin barker #johanna barker #anthony hope #lucy barker #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #headcanon

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barbossas-wench · 7 months

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I'm sorry, the old Benjamin can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, cause he's dead!

#Max's corner #Sweeney Todd #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street #Benjamin Barker #old meme but yeah #sweeney todd revival #sweeney todd 2023 #josh groban

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