"Lorax" Earthday school indoctrination for environmentalist's chil

Dude, it's Dr. Seuss.

He was simply creating a fable to illustrate a moral lesson - in this case of not helping to destroy our environment with greed.

Surely you can agree with this basic virtue and not get all hyper-political about it?

Well, the basic lesson is the same, but I knew Hollywood would add a lot of flair and plot, especially for a Dr. Seuss book.

So yes.

for the trees have no tongues,
And I'm asking you sir at the top of my lungs,
(he was very upset, as he shouted and puffed)
What's that THING you've made out of my Truffula tuft?

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Who doesn't seem to realize that trees are a very renewable resource, that capitalism is a good thing (don't know if he addressed it in the book), and he's literally preaching Silent Spring to 7 year olds.



What, by teaching that trees aren't a manageable crop, or that it's safe to assume that businessmen are greedy and evil? That's essentially what you just said.



What, the basic virtues you just mentioned?




Again, all those differences I mentioned were nothing but flair and plot.




Well thanks for the quote from the book anyway.

Where does the phrase "tree huger" come from? Sentimental pap like this. The movie and apparently the book leave no doubt, chopping down trees is bad. End of story at least for 7 year olds, an apparently for a lot of adults who must have been sucked in by this back when they were 7.

And there was almost no poetry or rhyming in the book which is a trademark of Dr. Seuss. Of all his books, how did this one hide in the weeds all these years. I've got a couple dozen of them on my shelves, but none of them are like this.

This is as bad as the "Rainbow Fish". People get sucked in when they're young and aren't able to question it after so many years.

Dr. Seuss was not saying that chopping down trees is bad. The fable has the antagonist chopping down ALL trees, rather than tempermenting his greed. THIS is the lesson. Not that moderating environment vs. business or that all businesses are bad.

I am sorry you don't see the moral here. Kids do. And, no it wasn't from a brainwashing, as you wish to see it, or anything even remotely similar to anything within the liberalist thought train, is.

Maybe the movie never rhymed, but the book did. That's Hollywood for you, always taking liberties.

It didn't much actually, much to my chagrin.

Ahhhh....you're the guy is is paranoid and obsessed with some politician(?) that has 'spies' in this and other forums, apparently some of us members are these spies and we have some sort of agenda. Now I remember.

Yeah, that's why I can't take anything you say/type seriously.

In my best John Pinett voice: "It's a MOOVIE!" So what if it pertains to saving the environment? Even after I read the book and saw the original movie, I didn't jump up, while placing hands on hips and shout: "I must save the planet from the autocracies of mankind!! UP, UP, and AWAY!!!" It's a frickin' movie.



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That is does. *shivers*

But that's exactly what they did, in the movie. The Lorax exploded out of the stump of the tree he first cut down. You'd think he cut down the Tree of Souls in Avatar or something. There were no half measures in this at all.




I think it was laziness in this case. All Dr. Seuss has rhymed in the past, even "How the Grench Stole Christmas". This is the only Dr. Seuss I've ever not enjoyed, much less this tripe.




You mean why YOU can't take what I say seriously. And he isn't a politician, he's an evil capitalist.



Yeah, Birth of a Nation and Triumph of Will were only movies. Movies were used by both Hitler and Mao (among many others) to indoctrinate their youth. You don't see the parallel because you have regular communion with the Earth mother/goddess, taking the sacrament of tripe and Kool-Aide.




Apparently those were different than this hyper-green version--to which Dr. Seuss appended his name nonetheless.

Speak of the Devil and his angels shall appear:


He's got no idea how old I am, and what does it matter anyway, the Truth is the Truth. The Lorax speaks for the trees, I speak for the aged, for whom you've just shown contempt and prejudice.

I know that you're much older than 49, because you've told me so..

So, I guess, based on that one fact, we can all agree that thepainfultruth lies.

And it's creepy for an old guy to go to a kids movie alone.

Only think I've said was I didn't use my real birthday. Deal with it.

And if you want creepy, it's Your Limpness with that avatar and you daydreaming they're in your sand box. Think outside the box, think dink.....and shriveled.....and able to cut the mustard....in your dreams.

Cut the mustard? Why dilute a perfectly good condiment?

Although, honey mustard is my favorite.



...and the homemade kind, as a glaze, on ham.

TPT, do you disagree with the premise that unchecked greed which leads to literal destruction of the natural environment is a bad thing?

But I was talking about Dr. Seuss - in other words, the book - which you also said was "bad enough".