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May 11, 2003

Old Cartoons

Watching old cartoons you realize just how egotistical Americans have always been.

Its obvious that given what we know today, these cartoons would never be allowed to be shown to children. It's just humorous today to see what we were teaching our children through cartoons back then. It seems so innocuous until you ask yourself why they covered some of the themes they did in the first place. Cartoons about how beautiful the giant redwood forrest is and how by cutting its elderly trees down we can make nice neighborhoods with big houses. Does that come up by accident? I'm not talking about animated cigarette commercials with Fred Flinstones. These were cartoons on saturday morning. Its actually humorous seeing our depiction of other peoples like Native Americans (Indians), orientals, hispanic, etc... Humorous in its complete lack of political correctness.

TV is very influential. We do not want to admit that because by admitting the TV is influential, we are admitting WE are gullible. But, if a good majority of us watch TV and think they can never be 'had', we are probably fooling ourselves. If a majority of us WERE NOT taken in by TV ads and the like, they wouldn't make them as dishonest as they do.

Posted by wonko at May 11, 2003 09:08 PM

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I am looking for a video for the cartoon Kimba the white lion. any help

Posted by: jim at December 10, 2003 01:22 PM

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