Thanks to Helen for the photo.
I went to the Darwin Museum recently, and I had a great time...until it dawned on me that all of the fun animals I was observing were now dead and stuffed. Their skins were peeled off, and altered in unnatural ways for our amusement. The majority of viewers were under 12 (this is possibly the trigger that made me start to wonder about the exhibit). Just imagine little Sasha running up to her mommy, "look mom, a baby penguin. how cute." "I'm sorry I have to tell you this honey, but you need to know...the baby penguin is dead. They found it in the engines of a cruise liner, and used its carcass for a display. I hope you learned a lot from the ultimate sacrifice that little Scamper made." Have we really evolved all that much in all this time? Yes, yes we have...I learned that from the stuffed monkeys in the museum. We stuffed them because we're smarter. Put one down for the human race.
Speaking of Scamper the penguin, it's a cartoon from my early childhood. Out of curiosity I found it online and was shocked at what I found. It was initially a Japanese-Soviet production! The Russkis got to me before I could even speak English. Only, in their version, he's called Lolo. It's all a viscous plot to promote the Soviet way of life, and when little Scamps got out of hand, it was to the Darwin Museum for him. The perfect crime...well I won't stand for it. Check it out for yourselves...or if not for yourself, do it for lil' scamps.
The video didn't work for me, but now I'm all too curious. By the way, we watched some Christmas cartoons that I remember as a kid and they are beyond racist. They're at the hilariously racist level now. Also, I saw this documentary where the apes were the smart ones and had humans as pets. I think they even blew up New York City. Damn you! You blew it up! Daaaaaamn youuuuuu!!!
ReplyDeleteI still maintain that they found all those animals dead.
ReplyDeletePS: Holy crap that video was cute.