What Mister Rogers Tells us about Authority and Resistance
Channel: What'sBehindTheSky
Date: 2020-11-04

A lot of people see Mister Rogers as a kind of anti-Trump. If we're going to use Mister Rogers to inform our political resistance, we should look more closely at what his program was actually trying to tell us.

Full 1984 Dairy Farm episode (1527): https://www.misterrogers.org/episode-playlist/batch-26-1526-1527-1528-1529-1530/

Full 1968 episodes (0001-0005): https://www.misterrogers.org/episode-playlist/batch-1-episodes-0001-0002-0003-0004-0005/

Want more Mister Rogers info? Visit the Neighborhood Archive: http://www.neighborhoodarchive.com/

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Music in this video: 
Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4173-opportunity-walks
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Off to Osaka by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4154-off-to-osaka
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Local Forecast Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Gymnopedie No. 1 by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3837-gymnopedie-no-1
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

0:00 Introduction: What's Mister Rogers trying to tell us?
4:21 A Visit to a Dairy Farm
17:25 King Friday builds a wall
27:30 Conclusion

Hi! I'm Char. I make video essays about media criticism, literature, and queerness. Let's take some crazy cultural objects and figure out what they mean.