tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post7118018732886265896..comments2024-03-15T00:12:57.489-07:00Comments on Covenant Zone: Mr Dressup vs martyrdomtruepeershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-5483085861774574762007-07-19T01:02:00.000-07:002007-07-19T01:02:00.000-07:00à Charles Henry You are right ; it is difficult ...à Charles Henry<BR/> You are right ; it is difficult to imagine what sort of people can use children to promote their politics, whichever side they stand with.<BR/> I keep reciting a line, though I can't remember who it is by :<BR/>"honte à ceux qu'un enfant tout à coup ne désarme".<BR/> This is not something new : this time I know the verse I am going to quote was written by Victor Hugo :<BR/>"Ami, répondit l'enfant aux yeux bleus,<BR/> Je veux de la poudre et des balles"<BR/>The poem was about the war of independence of Greece, in the XIXth century, awar against Turkey, if my memory is good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-9401311676387681542007-07-18T19:17:00.000-07:002007-07-18T19:17:00.000-07:00I was instilled with all manner of neighborly mann...I was instilled with all manner of neighborly manners and escapist fantasy by Fred Rogers, and I still managed to become properly impolite and grounded in reality. <BR/><BR/>One could hope, that in the fullness of time a psuedo-stinian child would grow up to laugh at the crude propaganda of Farfor and the Bee, if not for the call to martyrdom found in such fantasies. While I was learning that every smiling jackass was not my "good neighbor," I did in fact meet a great number of good people. The fantasy offered psuedo-stinian children is more final and less benign. A pseudo-stinian martyr will never learn to laugh at the cowards that train children rather than adults to fight. <BR/><BR/>The statement, "I'm sure we wouldn't have had Mr. Dress-up if we were living in refugee camps without a country." seems to neglect that such refugees have been welcomed into Canada, the children of which did likely watch "Mr. Dress-up" rather than a plush mouse getting the stuffing kicked out of it by KGB.maccusgermanishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01887574496312472556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-29094641838245524392007-07-18T14:04:00.000-07:002007-07-18T14:04:00.000-07:00I wouldn't have known that Palestinian children we...I wouldn't have known that Palestinian children were being brainwashed in this way if I hadn't read it on Covenent Zone. Unbelievable. <BR/><BR/>Equally unbelievable to me, though, are your memories of learning alot from Mr. Dress Up and the Friendly Giant. I remember being a kid and thinking that Mr. Dress Up talked in a phony way. He bored the daylights out of me. I learned nothing because I just got too bored to sit in front of the television and watch him. I didn't find Finnigan interesting either; if I remember correctly he was some sort of puppet figure who Mr. Dress Up talked to.<BR/><BR/>I was bored with the Friendly Giant too. But I liked him a litle better than Mr. Dress Up. I liked the way the furniture on the set was built to different scales, some huge and some minitiature. Years later, as an adult, I was watching the news and they played a clip of the Friendly Giant sitting in the rocking chair and they said he'd died. <BR/><BR/>There was another children's show that I used to watch on CJOH in Ottawa. A woman would stand in front of the camera beside a huge sheet of paper and tell a story about a worm named Oogly Wooglie. She used a black felt pen to sketch illustrations as she told the story. When she finished one picture, she would flip the paper (it was hanging on some sort of tripod) and she would start drawing on a fresh piece. She was calm but fast in the way she would keep the pictures coming. Even then, I knew that this was a very cheap way to do a television show. But I liked it. I don't remember her name.<BR/> <BR/>JaneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-79896797446105104802007-07-18T12:42:00.000-07:002007-07-18T12:42:00.000-07:00We might not have Mr. Dress-up in most places in t...We might not have Mr. Dress-up in most places in this world; still, that's no excuse for turning your children into people sick with hate, wannabe martyrs bowing to the cult of the suicide belt and AK47. What other people in the world, fighting for whatever, still treat their children as gifts to God, to be sacrificed in his name? Seanm why do you make excuses for this sorry bunch, other than the fact that they are fighting Jews? Do you know anything much about people in much more bloody conflicts around the world? Do you give a moment's thought to how the "Palestinians" have been treated by the Jordanians, Egyptians, Syrians, Lebanese, who have killed far more than the Jews over the years? Do the Arabs not have to be held to some standard too?<BR/><BR/>Charles, think about sean a little and ask yourself again if the world of Mr. Dress-up has had the intended effects; maybe it has helped, along with many others in "education" to create a generation of fantasists.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-35243317984853289162007-07-17T23:36:00.000-07:002007-07-17T23:36:00.000-07:00I'm sure we wouldn't have had Mr. Dress-up if we w...I'm sure we wouldn't have had Mr. Dress-up if we were living in refugee camps without a country. <BR/><BR/>"What kind of government creates this kind of education for the children of those parents?" <BR/><BR/>A non government in a non country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com