Many things appear and superpose on those fundamental things. The story about murder and love is kept, about the love Cow would wish. The essential erodes and even if I agreed with you, I would say that this enrichment supposes an equally rapid erosion. Because in the symbolic register the passage from a thing to its opposite is perfectly coherent and meaningful and so on. I mean, I don t see as a major change in the symbolic register the fact that before there were nice cartoons and now there are ugly ones.
Society has other values and they are very well reflected in cartoons.
I think we are confronting with another society and with another receiver. The receiver is more important. In Dexter s case, the receiver is identified with the child himself who, raised with computer, wishes a laboratory. Bugs Bunny and the others had a very specific receiver. I ve always thought it is very specific.