seattleguy wrote:
Without getting too caught up in the politics involved, I would guess that Schiff may have been unaware of any negative ramifications regarding the UNESCO ads featuring Superman.

"Unaware" implies either ignorance or unconsciousness (or both) as to the implied effect of PSAs like that one.  I think Schiff knew exactly what he was doing; he just didn't care how strange and disturbing it looked to see Superman kidnapping people off the streets at random simply to make some political point that he wanted to push. "Whatever it takes" and all that.

 I won't question his sincerity regarding them.

I don't question his sincerity either; obviously he was committed to his political ideology or he wouldn't have invested so much time writing those PSAs.  It's true that the majority of the ads contained useful civics lessons for young kids about good citizenship, cultivating wise moral habits and other more mundane matters. Nothing wrong with that. But when it came to his unwavering confidence in the U.N. (along with certain other issues related to it) Schiff was unfortunately stuck in Fantasyland while the rest of us who saw things differently had to live in Realville.  But again, that isn't surprising.  Schiff was a True Believer, and clearly from the tone of his PSAs none of the warnings (and there were plenty of them in the 1950s and 60s) about the dangers of an unaccountable transnational political bureaucracy like the U.N. made the slightest dent in his views regarding that subject.




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