It's hard to believe that in the old days, that's what passed for entertainment

[elfs]

So, Kouryou-chan was part of the local communistty theatre, doing an absurdly treacly kid-oriented play based loosely on maybe a page and a half of Robinson Crusoe. It was basically an excuse for the kids to dress up, sing their hearts out, and prance about on stage in facepaint.

There were two moral messages beaten into the audience: (1) Books are cool, and (2) it's not nice to eat your friends.

We went out to eat with the cast & crew after that, where the children were all way too loud, and the typical American fare was basically salt, grease, and sugar, and too much of it. I think I ate half my burger.

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[datapacrat.livejournal.com]

I think my class did something based on the same play 25 years ago. I was cast as the cannibal - when the shipwrecked survivors arrived on the island, my one and only line was "Unga bunga! Finally, some more lunch!"

I was near-immediately crushed by Mr. Grape, a local parade mascot, who happened to be flying by.

... Okay, maybe it wasn't the same play at all.


One thing I've noticed in the past few months - there are a lot of stories in various media which teach the simple lessons, and a reasonable amount of stories that teach lessons for the average adult... but there are an astonishingly few number of stories that help teach something new to the people who've managed to master the average-man's lessons. The only new one I've come across in months is "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", an alternate-universe fanfic where Harry is raised by a professor instead of the Dursleys... and for which any description I can give pales to the TVTropes page ( http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality ).