Topic: Here is my bedtime story for you about moon, market and riching quick (Read 8869 times)

This story seems very amusing. I will have to read it one day. Is there an english translation somewhere?

I'm sure that worked wonders for you, and made you much open minded, curious and analytic. When we are presented with opposite truths, especially when kids, we develop critical thinking skills as we need them to assimilate and understand. When the truth presented to us is univocal, usually we just accept it.

The cold ware never ended... you just swapped it for the war on drugs and the war on terror. How's that going for ya?

I bumped this thread due to Avalon rumors. But you immediately triggered this topic. Whats going on? Guilty mind betrays itself?

Indeed, when I was a child, I read many stories from different culture, but some of them just feel so strange (those from south east asia, island countries), different value and logic, typically the main character died and part of his body become this this and this island 

Best thing in the world would be to read to our children many stories, each one coming from different places and cultures, and see how they react to each one. Beautiful but quite difficult task, especially nowadays as everything is pretty much globalized and uniform.

Wow! And to think, I was reading stories like "The Color Kittens", "Mr. Pine's Purple House", and "Hello Moon".

Aren't cultural differences fascinating

99% of mass-distributed content for kids is bloated with brainwashing propaganda. Das Blaue Von Himmel was socialist propaganda, Walt Disney is capitalist propaganda, and you can count examples like those by the thousands. Do not forget that in most cultures entertainment for kids = educating, and "educating" is a tricky word.

That's why I never understood how parents can feed their small children with all that mainstream products without even taking a look at them. And the few that take a look at them, don't even seem to realize the obvious subtext in those stories.

My favorite book from childhood in the good old German Democratic Republic is "Das Blaue Vom Himmel" by Hannes Hüttner.
Its one of the most entertaining and phantasy rich stories I ever read (or have been read to). It features a boy that builds a rocket (what coincidence..?) from his old wooden cabin to embark on a search for his two brothers that have been missing on curd star. Whith him travel 2 robots, a crossbreed of dog and tomato and a basilisk. Lots of crazy stuff happens many peculiar characters show up during the adventure, there is for example the dancing sausage team from "Schlaraffenland", a German version of candy mountain and slowly moving giants on moon, that take so long to move that it takes them decades to ask a question. I also remember the gandfather that cant find the door lock to his key one night, so he paints a a white circle around it, too bad that his door is white in ther first place, so has to color it black, done he discovers that his house was black to begin whit so he has to color it white so he ends up trying to make the night white and the day black and so forth..
Even being a child though, I realized the socialist propaganda and themes this book thries to convey, if you can look beyond it though, its as rich of ideas and quirky humor as a Hitch Hiker's guide to Galaxy!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OncZBlj9tSo

LOOOOOL, now I totally get it - good one lucif!!

Glad you did, I missed this beautiful story. Any chance that book have an English translation?

Edit:
Found some Dunno stories but not this you were talking about:
http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/mir-nosov-dunno.pdf

I'm confused.  I'm confused by the story and what it represents.  It seemed a really long and complicated story and what is the moral, that "everyone except the bourgeoisie gets screwed"?  

I'm also confused by you, lucif, I thought you made a new character and abandoned the old one.  Did you just create a sock puppet to maintain the analyst thread?

Well, I should bump this topic up =) hehe

I question science.

Particle physicists had to remove consciousness before they could repeatably study matter on a small scale.  All we know about quantum mechanics can be overpowered by our will.

I congratulate AVALON with passing through all skeptics, trollings, temptations and borders described and missed here.

I really surprised that unknown group of nerds was able to bring somthing really new and amazing to the world. This really surprised me. Hat off.

However that was a kickstart and situation still evolves.

In a name of science: QUESTION EVERYTHING.

Ahh, "Neználek na měsíci", my favourite book of childhood  . But comrades did a poor job - I liked the book, but the economics and social aspects in these stories never catch my attention 

Hehe, you must be kidding? Promises?

Indeed it does:

https://forums.butterflylabs.com/content/129-13-jan-13-asic-update.html