Monday, August 9, 2010

Nurture Nature - Adam

Some of you may know Brian is coaching for the Hiram football team so if you want to see the Terriers in action here is the schedule. I can guarantee you I will be to at least one home game of theirs.

You ever notice how if we are exposed to films or stories where things are personified our amount of empathy for that particular thing goes through the roof?

I have numerous examples and could right many novels about them but I'll hit you with a few and let you ponder this yourself

Toy story: not only is this movie based on inanimate objects that have never been alive nor will they ever bee alive BUT the toys in the movie never even existed prior to the film (except for etch and sketch Mr potato head and maybe a few others) but because of the movie people start caring WAY too much for toys (you are telling me you would rather these chunks of plastic be thrown in an attic forever rather than let less fortunate kids find entertainment from them?

sorry if I sight Disney movies for all of these scenarios they seem to be the king of this kind of thing

Cockroaches, everyone hates them but put the thing next to a robot (another object that is man made and consists of only metal and computer parts) boom Wall-E and the disease ridden pest roach companion can steal the hearts of many when it is 100% a fantasy world of the future

last one I'll give you is trees, they are essential to humans for houses, paper, food, and they can't speak or feel pain or do anything but grow and die but make them talk and sing in Lord of the Rings or I can't even think of another example but give them human traits suddenly it is cruel to chop them down.

People become brainwashed from movies that give nonhuman things human characteristics, next time you care about something that isn't human think about why you are doing it and I guarantee its one of 2 reasons:

  1. The creature is really cute and you giggle at sight
  2. you saw a movie where the creature was personified thus creating some illusion that has clouded your judgement.

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