Commie Smurfs?

I know, I know. you are telling yourself 'now he has gone off the deep end. i have read a couple of essays today that i would like to share that make the case rather well.

The Smurfs Were Communists! by Dave Morgan Says the following:

Smurfs shared everything. The food in the Smurf village was stored away in those mushrooms the minute it was harvested and then equally distributed to all the Smurfs throughout the year. No one "farmer Smurf" sold his crop to a "consumer Smurf," or saw his labor exploited by another. It was understood that the crop was for the entire Smurf population, not for the sale or profit of one Smurf alone.

That in it's self is compelling even if you do not read the rest of the piece but, consider this:

The most compelling evidence that the Smurfs were communists comes from their relationship to the arch-villian Gargamel. If you remember, the only thing that Gargamel wanted the Smurfs for was for his own profit. In the first four or five seasons, Gargamel's master plan was to catch the Smurfs, boil them, and turn them into gold. For some reason, in the later years when the show was dying, they started saying that he wanted to eat the poor blue creatures, but for the most part he wanted to turn them into gold. He didn't care about the Smurfs themselves, their culture, or their well-being. All he cared about was getting gold. His only interest in how to get rich, and nothing, nothing would get in his way.

Gargamel was a capitalist.

There are other fine points on this page as well for example Kristen M. Sonntag, Esq said in Are the Smurfs Closet Communists?

In the Comunist Manifesto, Marx says, "In this sense the theory of the Communists may be summed up in a simple sentence: Abolition of private property." Well, all Smurf lands and territories belonged to all of the Smurfs, and there was no way in Hell that any single Smurf could even think of getting away with claiming a plot of land for himself or his own personal benefit or profit. Emphasis mine

Read the whole page there are bound to be other aspects of early morning cartoons that are little more than indoctrination of our children. (one reason why i didn't like Captain Planet or Barney and refused to let my Son watch either)We are entrusted with little skulls full of mush and, half the time, we do not know what gets put in thier brain.

Quality Time

Ya know what I hate? Well hate may be to strong a word. Lets try despise, ya, that works.



Ya know what I despise? I despise when real life gets in the way of either my Blogging time OR Gaming time. Of course i have to work a full time job, I am married and this takes alot of time my job takes 8 hours a day so that is a third of my day. I have to sleep.



I know I know... sounds like excuses, you say, welcome to the club. Ya know its not that i hate real life or my life for that matter. I have a lovely wife that i love more than anything else and a great kid who is in college at the age of 16. Very proud of him.

We at one time had a game night. Once a week we would gather arround the table and play cards, Poker, pitch, Canasta, hold 'em or a board game. we have a game we call marbles, kind of like a Sorry or similar game. You roll dice and move around the board till you get 'home'. Good Times.

Statistics show that Families that spend more 'quality' time together tend to be happier and have better relationships. That make sense, don't ya think? How much conversation do you get sitting arround a TV? Think about it i'll wait...

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Well let me tell you. when we are engrossed in a show there is no conversation, as a matter of fact, there is a concious effort to squelch conversation so we do not miss anything happening in the lives of a character in a fantasy world based on events real or imagined.

connect with your Families. Read together, read the same book, not nessasarily the same copy but the same book. Get arround the table and play a game. Talk for God's sake. You may be able to fix something you didn't know was broke.