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One thing really confuses me about these animalated CGI cartoon features... the "good guy" animals in one feature can be the "bad guy" animals in another. This could be confusing for the average punter, not to mention the kiddies.
I mean if Finding Nemo had been set in the Antarctic, the Happy Feet penguins would be the carnivorous beasties terrorising the peaceful, fluffy, philosophical and family-orientated fish community. In Happy Feet, fish are no more than faceless finned feasts.
Are we sensitising our kiddies to cuteness on one hand, only to desensitise them to sociopathic slaughter on the other? Are we saying it's OK to eat fish if you can't stand carving up a doe-eyed cow, but now it's also OK to have a doe-eyed Dory staring up from your plate?
These confusing cultural signals will create a generation completely incapable of making decisions based on cuteness. The one thing that elevates us from chimpanzees is our appreciation of wide-eyed fluffy cuteness that we shouldn't eat or bludgeon. It's the basic tenet of civilisation as we know it.
But the world we are painting for our impressionable young is no longer dog-eat-dog, it's cute&fluffy-eats-cute&fluffy!
Take "A Bug's Life" - released by the same company that did "The Lion King", showing characters eating the same kinds of bugs from the first film!
This nothing less than institutionalised hypocritical anthropomorphisation... or anthropomorphipocracy. And it must stop!
Say "NO" to anthropomorphipocracy!
I mean if Finding Nemo had been set in the Antarctic, the Happy Feet penguins would be the carnivorous beasties terrorising the peaceful, fluffy, philosophical and family-orientated fish community. In Happy Feet, fish are no more than faceless finned feasts.
Are we sensitising our kiddies to cuteness on one hand, only to desensitise them to sociopathic slaughter on the other? Are we saying it's OK to eat fish if you can't stand carving up a doe-eyed cow, but now it's also OK to have a doe-eyed Dory staring up from your plate?
These confusing cultural signals will create a generation completely incapable of making decisions based on cuteness. The one thing that elevates us from chimpanzees is our appreciation of wide-eyed fluffy cuteness that we shouldn't eat or bludgeon. It's the basic tenet of civilisation as we know it.
But the world we are painting for our impressionable young is no longer dog-eat-dog, it's cute&fluffy-eats-cute&fluffy!
Take "A Bug's Life" - released by the same company that did "The Lion King", showing characters eating the same kinds of bugs from the first film!
This nothing less than institutionalised hypocritical anthropomorphisation... or anthropomorphipocracy. And it must stop!
Say "NO" to anthropomorphipocracy!
