Shrompy’s view on man and animals
Shrompy feels that how the media, for example films, distort the true characteristics of animals will severely affect the future and current generations. Little children are more affected as they are too young and too simple-minded—they have yet to learn about the true characteristics of animals. Thus, for example, they can readily accept that animals can talk (from films like Charlotte’s Web, Babe in the City and Dr Dolittle).
They do not know that they are actually learning the wrong things. And as they grow older and watch films like Cats and Dogs, Octopus and Jaws for example, they may start to believe everything they see in the media. They may grow up thinking that pigs can herd sheep like sheepdogs; that spiders are friendly or dangerous (depending on the films they watch); cats are evil creatures and octopuses and sharks attack people with no qualms at all. This may result in the passing on of false or half-true information to other generations. Sooner or later, the world may be full for ignorant people who do not know a dangerous animal to one which can be domesticated.
Not many people now actually know the true characteristics of some animals. One of the most common misconceptions is about the piranha. In some stories, the piranha is depicted as a flesh-eating carnivore—a threat to humans and most things which are (apparently) made of ‘tasty’ flesh. In cartoons and films, the lake or swamp full of piranhas makes the task of crossing it a difficult and dangerous one. Thus it is quite obvious that the media influences the society.
Therefore, I feel that it is necessary to clear some of the most common misconceptions of some animals before the generations after us become brainless firm believers of what they see and hear, for as quoted by an anonymous person, “Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.”
Shrompy feels that how the media, for example films, distort the true characteristics of animals will severely affect the future and current generations. Little children are more affected as they are too young and too simple-minded—they have yet to learn about the true characteristics of animals. Thus, for example, they can readily accept that animals can talk (from films like Charlotte’s Web, Babe in the City and Dr Dolittle).
They do not know that they are actually learning the wrong things. And as they grow older and watch films like Cats and Dogs, Octopus and Jaws for example, they may start to believe everything they see in the media. They may grow up thinking that pigs can herd sheep like sheepdogs; that spiders are friendly or dangerous (depending on the films they watch); cats are evil creatures and octopuses and sharks attack people with no qualms at all. This may result in the passing on of false or half-true information to other generations. Sooner or later, the world may be full for ignorant people who do not know a dangerous animal to one which can be domesticated.
Not many people now actually know the true characteristics of some animals. One of the most common misconceptions is about the piranha. In some stories, the piranha is depicted as a flesh-eating carnivore—a threat to humans and most things which are (apparently) made of ‘tasty’ flesh. In cartoons and films, the lake or swamp full of piranhas makes the task of crossing it a difficult and dangerous one. Thus it is quite obvious that the media influences the society.
Therefore, I feel that it is necessary to clear some of the most common misconceptions of some animals before the generations after us become brainless firm believers of what they see and hear, for as quoted by an anonymous person, “Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.”
reference: http://members.rediff.com/bbn/qq.html
written by shrompy
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