fairytales and cartoons

prolong exposure to fairytales and cartoons pollute the mind. it severely damages one's ability to think logically and rationally.

was talking to some friends today about the effects of watching cartoons and reading fairytales. it all seems like an innocent activity but if you dissect it and question it you will find that it does effect our thinking in one way or another.

take for example cats and dogs. in cartoons...we are always led to believe that dogs will chase cats and cats will chase rats. whether they decide to consume one another is a different story. in real life...it might not be so. i've seen dogs and cats being buddies and i see a lot of rats happily wondering the streets together with cats. these creatures can co-exist without wanting to bite each other's heads off. and the thing is...they seem to co-exist more often than not. so why do cartoons depict these animals (plus that one rodent) as being incapable of existing side by side?

similarly...cartoons also teach us that cats like to eat fish. basically that's all they eat in cartoons. so we grow up thinking cats only eat fish and drink milk. once again...soooo not true.

and how about those fairytales? princess gets left stranded in an empty tower with no way to escape. i'm still wondering how rapunzel actually got up there if there's no staircase. anyway...prince charming will come save her and they live happily ever after. do they really? nobody tells us what happens after marriage. princes and princesses don't really live happily ever after. look at King Henry VIII. he had 6 wives...and many mistresses. look at prince charles...he's a prince and look what happened to his face. they're not all pretty and handsome.

as we grow up we realize that its all one big joke. but unbeknownst to many...it does affect our lives. many grow up believing that there is a prince charming and that there is a happily ever after. we are programmed to believe so at the age of 5. we don't get cartoons or bedtime stories talking about real life. war...poverty...racism...disasters. so next time my little earth ling will be watching discovery channel...national geographic and animal planet.