Pete Smith – Genius cartoons – bursting the childhood bubble

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Pete Smith – Genius cartoons – bursting the childhood bubble

 

The things we do to our children. The lies we tell. We furnish them with dragons, tooth fairies and Santa Claus. We foist religion on them.

Then we ridicule them for believing things or enjoy ripping their world to bits. We take away the tooth fairy, Santa Claus and dragons and ridicule them for daydreaming.

A shame we didn’t take away the religion too!

Perhaps we should let that childhood imagination blossom?

Pete summed it up in his cartoons from 1971.

Pete Smith – Genius Cartoons – The world is wondrous when we allow it to be.

Posted on by Opher

Pete Smith – Genius Cartoons – The world is wondrous when we allow it to be.

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Pete and I both had this feeling that children see the world in all its splendour but as we grow up that gets knocked out of us; they get told how to view things, what to appreciate and what is good and what is bad.

Bad education makes a chore out of looking at things that should be wondrous.

We should encourage people to be able to look at something beautiful and see its beauty magnified in our minds. That is education – understanding and celebrating the wonders of the universe.