The Lessons of Fairyland

 

One of the most alarming trends in modern culture is the suppression of fairy tales and fables. 

These are critically important. Along with reading, writing, and arithmetic, the Bible and the catechism, they are entirely what a proper general education consists of. Fairy tales and fables exist to teach each new generation the vital lessons they need for life. 

And most kids today don’t know them—not the real stories.

Disney has played a role in this—the original Disney. He took the traditional stories and always altered the message to “finding a sex partner is the key to happiness.” Which was never in the original stories, with their spiritual concerns. How much of the sexual “revolution” that began in the 1950s was due to this? For example, in the original Sleeping Beauty, when the prince awakens her with a kiss, the plot is still only half unravelled. Her greatest troubles lie ahead, at the hands of a cannibalistic mother-in-law. The real Snow White is not awakened by a kiss—she is only seven years old--but when her corpse is dropped in transit. Nor is any frog turned into a prince by being kissed—he transforms when thrown against the wall in disgust.

One sees the trend.

But once the tales had been so trivialized, it got worse. Largely at the hands of the latter Disney Corp, but also thanks to feminists and pomos generally. 

The new trend is not just to ignore or suppress the moral lessons, but to invert them; along with the warnings of dangers to a child’s well-being.  One is now to trust wolves and witches and ogres, who are all noble, well-meaning, oppressed and discriminated against. A good way to usher young people into witches’ ovens and ogres’ cooking pots and the wolves’ dark interiors.

It all seems part of a larger holocaust of the young, which is a general narcissistic tendency. Narcissists hate children, over the thought that one day their children will survive them. 

And our society as a whole has been turning narcissistic, immoral and selfish.