No clearer illustration of the Left’s persistent self-perception as the heroic underdogs, in complete disregard of reality.

The thing is, all the things that Curtis doesn’t like —

• “story these programmes tell is a deeply conservative one. The central, natural, unit that the films portray is the family — and they tend to follow that social unit through repeated cycles of birth, discovery, danger and tragedy — followed by the birth of the next generation who will repeat the cycle.”
• “natural inevitability”
• “an implicit conservative message — the eternal law of the jungle.”

— are reality.

“Family” is “naturally inevitable”, in the sense that all animals are descended from others. Parents must “invest” in their offspring. Some animals have more children and invest less per child, other have fewer children and invest more per child, but all children take some resources to produce at all: children are an investment. Animals must invest in their young for their genes to survive and spread. The one thing we can say for certain is that genes for looking after (“investing in”) the offspring of other animals will not spread. Presumably Curtis doesn’t like this.

As for the law of the jungle, maybe you can abolish “Social Darwinism” but you can’t abolish Darwinism.

There was no need to wait for youtube to see silly animal videos. They’ve been on America’s Funniest Home Videos all along.