The last thing we should be teaching children is some easy mode fantasy about how virtuous and straight forward capitalism is.
If they want to prepare their kids for the world we’ve made them, the parent should take 99% of what they make at the end of the day, and welcome them to cry if they don’t like it because they own the means of lemonade production.
I don’t even see it as being the one crushing their spirit. What makes that crush more painful is what most parents do, play pretend that the society their child will enter is just, fair, mutually beneficial, and responsive to good faith effort.
The reality lf course couldn’t be further from the truth. Teaching them such things is feeding them to the jackals and setting them up both for disappointment and failure. Children need to know that the moment they’re an adult, society will prey on their good will, punish empathy, and attempt to exploit them for maximum labor with minimum reward.
Instead some parents have their kids sell lemonade/scout cookies/etc to smiling neighbors, about as reflective of the reality of our rigged economy as Santa Clause is to the reality of how those presents got under the tree last christmas.
Then society condemns such children for taking out student loans and working dead end jobs with no promotion or pay raise for making “bad choices,” despite insisting we spend 18 years deluding them into doe eyed naivety to preserve their innocence. If anyone actually wanted that, our society and the global economy wouldn’t be as sociopathic as it is.
I know it’s satire but I hate when it’s so obvious they’ve seen like 4 episodes before they start riffing. Study the source material and then concoct your satire, don’t just wing it from the back cover…
Bandit tires, he makes mistakes, he fails miserably at teaching lessons at times and really the only truly unrealistic thing about Bluey as a whole is how fucking great those kids are (Bluey and Bingo.) They’re far to understanding and intuitive and don’t get me started on how they are as siblings with the worst conflicts being just about the mildest stuff ever.
If anything the show, like 99% of kids shows, has unattainably competent role models. No kid that watches it ever thinks they can be Bluey or Bingo because they’re just as unrealistic and unrelatable as Spider-Man. You can only be them in your fantasy. Being Chili and Bandit is far easier and I think that is why it’s so loved by parents, because it inspires us to do better, to try harder and to push through, like they do.
We need a kids show about a kid with ADHD and light Autism that tries but fails ever damn time but keeps on grinding. Celebrating the smallest of success.
I have legit and without irony thought “What would Bandit do?” I have also stolen several fantastic tricks from him such as “Its a good thing your tough.”
For once the dad isnt a source of money and boneheaded antics for the all powerful mommy figure.
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