I Am a Parent
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"Moralists always have a sense of justice, but it may be a completely fanciful justice. Disney has his Pinocchio’s nose grow whenever he lies. In the book, however, while Pinocchio lies all the time, and while his lies never go unpunished, the nasal protraction only occurs at certain points by the intervention of a fairy. The moralism of Disney is one that is ultimately ineffectual: a child knows instinctively that the moral principles of the cinema (the principle, e.g., that bad actions are punished immediately and always in the same way) are often false. Meanwhile, the same child knows that the principles behind the fairy’s action is true: if one is lucky enough to have a good and wise parent, then he will be punished when caught doing wrong; if he is not caught right away, well, he will be eventually. His actions will catch up with him, not always with the same result, but in some fitting manner." [b]~ Paul Joseph Prezzia[/b], in [i]"The Hilarious Moralism of a Realist: A Review of Carlo Lorenzini’s (Collodi’s) Pinocchio"[/i] [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2sLUEve[/c]
"Moralists always have a sense of justice, but it may be a completely fanciful justice. Disney has his Pinocchio’s nose grow whenever he lies. In the book, however, while Pinocchio lies all the time, and while his lies never go unpunished, the nasal protraction only occurs at certain points by the intervention of a fairy. The moralism of Disney is one that is ultimately ineffectual: a child knows instinctively that the moral principles of the cinema (the principle, e.g., that bad actions are punished immediately and always in the same way) are often false. Meanwhile, the same child knows that the principles behind the fairy’s action is true: if one is lucky enough to have a good and wise parent, then he will be punished when caught doing wrong; if he is not caught right away, well, he will be eventually. His actions will catch up with him, not always with the same result, but in some fitting manner." [b]~ Paul Joseph Prezzia[/b], in [i]"The Hilarious Moralism of a Realist: A Review of Carlo Lorenzini’s (Collodi’s) Pinocchio"[/i] [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2sLUEve[/c]
