On a movie

I saw several good movies recently. The most recent was "Horton Hears a Who".

It was funny, humorous, and best of all, I detected some parallels in my philosophy.

I saw it with my autistic younger sister, my older sister, and my girlfriend.

The first and main instance was the villian of the film, the kangaroo. She showed perfectly a person blinded by her own valuing of superstition and her lack of open thought. The arguments she used ("for the children", an argument used by the Christian Right; "he is corrupting the minds of our children", an argument that led to a certain man drinking hemlock; and "if one cannot see, hear or feel something..." a blatant reminder of her stupidity, for what does cause disease?) were perfect examples of common travesties of non thinking. Suess himself was a great thinker. A clear parody of arms races can be seen in "The Butter Battle Book" "The Lorax", a book blocked by the most malicious of forces, has a great environmental message, and that would probably be picketed and boycotted by all non-thinking lumberjack families worldwide, (as the book has been, and still is) if it ever became a movie. "The Sneetches" contains comments about racism, and it follow-up; tails contain even more assorted meanings. In some ways, Dr. Seuss is, as Ayn rand defined, a Romantic poet, in that his works have lived long and are now immortal. Unlike most writers, who write about the times, he writes about the ageless. His books will never die, so long as humanity exists.

The movie did have its flaws, however. The main flaw was the dance and pop music. Since pop music is, again, not Romantic as Ayn Rand defined, it is a serious flaw in any film. Instrumental music, like that used in The Lord Of The Rings, would have been better, and the stupid but somewhat funny parody of anime was needless

Well, my dog recently had a dewclaw problem, so she needed to have a bath More on that later...