Truthiness + Cooking = Food Poisioning

[kaitou]

I will post about my weekend in a minute. But first, I have a mini rant. Palinesque Anti-Intellectualism has trickled down to Canadian cartoon shows. While eating my raisin bran this morning in the lobby they had a kid's cartoon about 'racer dogs' on the tv. (I'm not sure why, there were no kids around) And the dogs were having a cooking contest. But the main dog couldn't figure out what to cook, so it got a cookbook.

And the other dogs told him, 'You can't use a cookbook! You need to cook something that comes from your heart!'

Comments

[aphelion-orion.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally love that kind of argument. As in, it makes me want to set things on fire love. It's just that special cherry on top of the lopsided, burnt, utterly messed up cake where bookish people are never wise, or smart, and they're always ugly and pimply and cowardly and spray spit when they talk. And they betray people over things like money or a position. Yeah.

I wish I had a smarter commentary or analysis on the hows and whys, but... rage. Incoherent screaming rage. *wanders off muttering*

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

In this case the dog was definitely not pegged to be the 'smart' dog. He was the dog that loved to eat garbage, so he was trying to figure out what he could cook that he loved, and that would win him the cooking contest. So he ended up with a 'garbage' pizza of ingredients leftover from everyone else's cooking.

So, yeah kids! Eat garbage!

And it took people weeks and weeks to animate that mess too. People got PAID for that. It's the Death Bed all over again.

[aphelion-orion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it just reminded me so much of other incarnations of anti-intellectualism. Sorry, should have clarified that.

And wow, that's... yeah. That's major fail. I mean, if only someone had told him that "in addition to the recipe, you should make your food with lots of love" or something equally cheesy. You know, something that makes sense and doesn't send the message - however unintentional - that books are useless. I guess it's too much to hope that anything in there was parodistic?

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Agreed! If I'd been writing it, I would have said, Ok, dog wants to win competition, so he tries to food he doesn't like, but he thinks the judges do. So the 'be true to yourself' part comes in with making food he loves, and doing it well.

[aphelion-orion.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* Yeah, just something nice and sensible. I sometimes get the feeling that a lot of what goes for "kids cartoons" these days isn't so much for or about kids as it is about the adult artists who draw them. Don't get me wrong, there was always that second level to cartoons (e.g. Animaniacs), but I remember growing up with so many different types of them, plus, most of them were rather carefully written.