I don’t know about Wall-E. It’s well done and beautiful and funny and stuff, but It still makes me cringe with all this cuteness.

So what could I expect, watching a kids movie and all? not much I guess, but still… Just let me ask this question out loud:

Why does the good guy in kids movies so often have to be helpless and naïve?

Yeah I know, there are lot’s of movies out there with rebel kids doing good stuff and so far and yadda yadda yadda, but it’s still a damn annoying reoccuring theme that the good fellows in almost any movie production has these asinine righteous qualities to them.

Why are we trying so hard to impose these values on kids?

The poor kids susceptible enough to follow these standards through are doomed to be labeled as losers by the rest of society. Imagine somebody in middle grade school walking around believing that ‘to be good to others’ is an important value to adhere to. If that poor little kid happen to be a boy, I’ll bet half your mortgage that he’ll end up being picked on by bullies because of his weird behavior.

Every time I see one of these kids honestly believing in the bullshit they are being fed from child friendly pop culture, I hang my head. They are heading for a tough lesson. The more innocent they are, the tougher it’s going to be.

It’s the very same boys who later in life complain about why girls don’t like the nice boys. The truth is that people too eager to please freaks me out. They probably freak most people out. And I wonder when I see them, what happened to them. How they managed never to shake the bullshit of their shoulders while growing up. I guess they somehow managed to become so righteously engulfed in their childish moral values that they perceive their helpfulness as superiority.

This serves no one any good. So why do we keep exposing kids to this kind of stuff?

My guess is as good as anyones, but I think it’s a selfish wish to keep them staying innocent for longer. People out there wants kids to be helpless and naïve enough to believe in goodness and doing the right thing, even when it in the long run will make their youth miserable.

I know that young minds are impressionable and I agree that some efforts should be made to protect and nurture them, but impressionable goes both ways. If we keep on feeding them bullshit to protect them from the world, then bullshit is very likely all they are going to believe.