“No hugging no learning”

Interesting guideline, for Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld & Larry David, in the early times of “The Pilot” : “no hugging, no learning”. Interesting insight, internal, on American cultural media morality. A rare, precious, and yet traditional strain of irony and self-irony. “You old bag!” shouted at an old lady outside the bakery after snatching her “chocolate rye”.

Culture of consensus, union and communion, and edification. How to manœuvre off it – with no superiority, edification of that kind either.

Culler from a far wider-ranging examination of the history of TV series since the 80s, London Rev of Books, James Meek “On the new TV“.