n.b.: people that are overly attached to the icons of their lost childhoods and refuse to hear a single word of amusing wickedness said against things like cabbage patch dolls, smurfs, or strawberry short cake… best get out now. you’ve been warned.
we’ve all heard how the smurfs are modeled after communism. some of us have heard (but some of us steadfastly disagree) that bert and ernie were actually created to show kids that two men living together and sharing a life was normal.
but i think i may be one of the few people who got creeped out by care bears.
i mean, really, okay? care bears? they live in a land, secluded from the rest of us, where they can care and love and smile and sing all day. they sometimes “have” to come “down to earth” to surround a human who “doesn’t know how to care” and stare them down with their messages of love and… you guessed it… caring.
they emit a “stare” of “care” from their stomachs, messages of hope and love and sharing and faith and listening. they literally corner people who “don’t care enough” and force-feed them morality.
does this SOUND like the Religious Right to anyone else? i mean, okay, they’re cute and fluffy, how could they be evil, right?
has anyone else seen ralph reed? he doesn’t look like he’d exise your free will just as fast as he’d look at you. but give him some pink fur, a round belly with the word “JESUS!” written on it, and a circle of fuzzy caring compatriots…
and you’ve got yourself a good old fashioned brainwashing.