I haven't finished reading the piece, but I appreciate your highlighting the way the animators took care to treat the everyday mundane as something worthy and worthwhile. Most children's television in America -- and I would argue, as s symptom of the larger cultural narcissism of America and hedonism, personal laxness vs responsibility -…
I haven't finished reading the piece, but I appreciate your highlighting the way the animators took care to treat the everyday mundane as something worthy and worthwhile. Most children's television in America -- and I would argue, as s symptom of the larger cultural narcissism of America and hedonism, personal laxness vs responsibility -- treats chores or everyday tasks with contempt and dismissiveness, and leads to a larger pattern later in life that the mundane has no good in it, and that if it isn't exciting at every moment, life is boring and meaningless. It normalizes that these activities are goods not only unto themselves, but demonstrates a healthy example of why it shows care for yourself, the home you create or have been given, and creates the positive reinforcement of virtue and personal responsibility to oneself and to others in later life. It's difficult to find that today, especially when everything is oversaturated in sugar-coated neon and extols behaviors that I wouldn't want to see in kids if I had them (resistance, whinging, complaining, evasion) etc. That's my two cents.
I haven't finished reading the piece, but I appreciate your highlighting the way the animators took care to treat the everyday mundane as something worthy and worthwhile. Most children's television in America -- and I would argue, as s symptom of the larger cultural narcissism of America and hedonism, personal laxness vs responsibility -- treats chores or everyday tasks with contempt and dismissiveness, and leads to a larger pattern later in life that the mundane has no good in it, and that if it isn't exciting at every moment, life is boring and meaningless. It normalizes that these activities are goods not only unto themselves, but demonstrates a healthy example of why it shows care for yourself, the home you create or have been given, and creates the positive reinforcement of virtue and personal responsibility to oneself and to others in later life. It's difficult to find that today, especially when everything is oversaturated in sugar-coated neon and extols behaviors that I wouldn't want to see in kids if I had them (resistance, whinging, complaining, evasion) etc. That's my two cents.