Post by gruntal on Sept 27, 2015 15:21:13 GMT
I hope I am not becoming balmy in me old age. I am even starting to watch television now in significant quantities and in the past I was much too restless to do that. I discovered a gem of a TV program only to witness the last and final episode because the show was cancelled. It was a Disney sitcom called Dog With A Blog. The last episode was to me a real tear-jerker. Goodbye Stan ! Take care of Freddie and Gracie!
I do admit being the only adult watching a show about a talking dog did weigh a bit on my ego.
Except Stan was more then a Muppet. He was witty and philosophical and also totally unique. And lovable in a way I never quite understood in human beings. So much so the kids in his family begged him to keep his special abilities secret lest the adults discover him and take him away to be experimented on. The metaphysical implications in the series were in my opinion way over the heads of the juveniles that were supposed to be the target audience watching it. And this wasn't the first time art or entertainment was ahead of it's time. Was it ever thus?
There are countless instances - from the prophet crying in the wilderness to artist Vincent Van Gogh - where things or ideas or products just were not appreciated in their time and place only to be rediscovered later with some veneration. Packaging and social mores play on our sensitivities. But more then anything I just think we just exist in some state of grace we call normal and everything we see reinforces it. The same sentence can have vastly different meanings to people in different eras. Spit and argue; fight a war! And yet when it comes right down to it everything becomes lucid - when you are ready to accept it.
In the mean time we study and learn and try to pass our tests. And kid ourselves that is where it is. What we see and get out of things at some level is more what we are rather then what the object is. It all depends on our mind set.
I do admit being the only adult watching a show about a talking dog did weigh a bit on my ego.
Except Stan was more then a Muppet. He was witty and philosophical and also totally unique. And lovable in a way I never quite understood in human beings. So much so the kids in his family begged him to keep his special abilities secret lest the adults discover him and take him away to be experimented on. The metaphysical implications in the series were in my opinion way over the heads of the juveniles that were supposed to be the target audience watching it. And this wasn't the first time art or entertainment was ahead of it's time. Was it ever thus?
There are countless instances - from the prophet crying in the wilderness to artist Vincent Van Gogh - where things or ideas or products just were not appreciated in their time and place only to be rediscovered later with some veneration. Packaging and social mores play on our sensitivities. But more then anything I just think we just exist in some state of grace we call normal and everything we see reinforces it. The same sentence can have vastly different meanings to people in different eras. Spit and argue; fight a war! And yet when it comes right down to it everything becomes lucid - when you are ready to accept it.
In the mean time we study and learn and try to pass our tests. And kid ourselves that is where it is. What we see and get out of things at some level is more what we are rather then what the object is. It all depends on our mind set.
