Team Rodent - Carl Hiaasen

Written by Carl Hiaasen
Read by Richard Gilliland
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

***PLEASE NOTE, this may be a 128 kbps audiobook but the recording is quite poor. It sounds like the narrator read it down the phone. It is however only two hours long (the book is less than 100 pages) so it’s bearable and still of interest to Hiaasen fans.***

“Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil; so uniformly efficient and courteous, so dependably clean and conscientious, so unfailingly entertaining that it’s unreal, and therefore is an agent of pure wickedness. . . . Disney isn’t in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striving to improve upon it, constantly fine-tuning God’s work.”
–from TEAM RODENT

TEAM RODENT
How Disney Devours America

“Revulsion is good. Revulsion is healthy. Each of us has limits, unarticulated boundaries of taste and tolerance, and sometimes we forget where they are. Peep Land is here to remind us; a fixed compass point by which we can govern our private behavior. Because being grossed out is essential to the human experience; without a perceived depravity, we’d have nothing against which to gauge the advance or decline of culture; our art, our music, our cinema, our books. Without sleaze, the yardstick shrinks at both ends. Team Rodent doesn’t believe in sleaze, however, nor in old-fashioned revulsion. Square in the middle is where it wants us all to be, dependable consumers with predictable attitudes. The message, never stated but avuncularly implied, is that America’s values ought to reflect those of the Walt Disney Company, and not the other way around.”