Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer's Lesson On Individualism
Posted by freedomforall 2 years, 3 months ago to Philosophy
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer's Lesson On Individualism
In 1964, NBC aired what would become one of the most beloved Christmas TV specials that has withstood the test of time with incredible stop-motion animation, sets, and colourful characters, all having been enjoyed by generations.
The story and one song in particular, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” teach us about how being an individualist and thinking differently from the crowd can often lead to a better outcome.
We follow the story about Donner, Santa’s most trusted sleigh leader, and his wife when they celebrate the arrival of a new fawn which they name Rudolph. When it is discovered that Rudolph’s nose glows red, Donner becomes scared of what others will say, and tries to hide his son’s deformity.
At the same time we meet one of Santa’s elves, Hermey, who is more interested in dentistry than in making toys.
His boss fires him when he doesn’t keep up with his co-workers. Rudolph and Hermey accidentally cross paths when they’re running away from being rejected, mocked, and pushed away by their companions.
The two join in a delightful duet titled “Misfits,” in which they state that their own decisions are best and that not fitting in is not a bad thing. A particular phrase that demonstrates this in the lyrics is:
We may be different from the rest
Who decides the test
Of what is really best?
This message is being forgotten amongst many of us, as governments and the school system try to stop us from thinking for ourselves.
If you don’t have the newest iPhone, then you’re considered not worth it. Many young people of today are just reacting to others and taking in the latest trends. Peer pressure and false methods being taught by teachers push youngsters away from listening to parents and the wisdom of following a steady course in life.
At the end of the special when the Abominable Snow Monster enters, all the others shy away except those with independent thought. In the end, we see that Rudolph is successful in life as “he goes down in history.”
Before you watch new Christmas movies that lack a significant moral or life message, go back to the classics and you might find that they have a deeper than expected effect on your whole family, apart from being a magical experience.
Merry Christmas!
Robert Jarvis
West Vancouver, British Columbia
In 1964, NBC aired what would become one of the most beloved Christmas TV specials that has withstood the test of time with incredible stop-motion animation, sets, and colourful characters, all having been enjoyed by generations.
The story and one song in particular, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” teach us about how being an individualist and thinking differently from the crowd can often lead to a better outcome.
We follow the story about Donner, Santa’s most trusted sleigh leader, and his wife when they celebrate the arrival of a new fawn which they name Rudolph. When it is discovered that Rudolph’s nose glows red, Donner becomes scared of what others will say, and tries to hide his son’s deformity.
At the same time we meet one of Santa’s elves, Hermey, who is more interested in dentistry than in making toys.
His boss fires him when he doesn’t keep up with his co-workers. Rudolph and Hermey accidentally cross paths when they’re running away from being rejected, mocked, and pushed away by their companions.
The two join in a delightful duet titled “Misfits,” in which they state that their own decisions are best and that not fitting in is not a bad thing. A particular phrase that demonstrates this in the lyrics is:
We may be different from the rest
Who decides the test
Of what is really best?
This message is being forgotten amongst many of us, as governments and the school system try to stop us from thinking for ourselves.
If you don’t have the newest iPhone, then you’re considered not worth it. Many young people of today are just reacting to others and taking in the latest trends. Peer pressure and false methods being taught by teachers push youngsters away from listening to parents and the wisdom of following a steady course in life.
At the end of the special when the Abominable Snow Monster enters, all the others shy away except those with independent thought. In the end, we see that Rudolph is successful in life as “he goes down in history.”
Before you watch new Christmas movies that lack a significant moral or life message, go back to the classics and you might find that they have a deeper than expected effect on your whole family, apart from being a magical experience.
Merry Christmas!
Robert Jarvis
West Vancouver, British Columbia
for a long time. There are no real heroes portrayed, just confused, alcohol/drug addled,
womanizing, mostly moronic sacrifices to war-monger politicians. Many plots glorify
US military and CIA meddling everywhere in the world. Others glorify federal police
(FBI/BATF/DEA/etc) actions that overtly defy constitutional limits.
It's not entertainment; it's Anti-American propaganda.
Political Correctness, Social Cognitive Theory (where it is known or at least assumed that folks start doing what they observe others doing) and Social Construct Theory (where what is real is what society agrees is real---ask the Sentinelese how that's working out for them) are the very tools of the metaphorical devil. And those concepts are what have infiltrated the Liberal Lefty influence in the media and the entertainment industry. Tools of the devil, metaphorically speaking.
A group of lib elites make a make-believe game of hunting Deplorables on the Internet. They get hacked and lose their jobs for providing bad PR for the companies they work for.
So what do those petty evil as hell angry libs do? They double down and hunt Deplorables for real.
In a way that just seems so typical. Those dingbats who form The Squad doubles down on stupid Schiff all the time!
First the vengeful libs in the movie target Deplorables whose outraged complaints cost them their jobs.
That's when they make a very bad mistake. A female Afghanistan vet has a name very much the same as a lady targeted for capture in Mississippi.
And for making weird humming sounds, you can tell the vet has a touch of PTSD. Turns out that only makes her, along with experienced combat skills,all the more extremely dangerous.
Me dino got such a kick out of this flick that I bought the DVD and two more that I gifted to two conservative brothers this Christmas. I didn't send one to my only lib brother, since I didn't think he would appreciate it.
You're supposed to be nice on Christmas. What lib wants to see a Deplorable take down one intolerant elite lib killer after another?
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi18905474...
(since women don't have the physical strength to do so except to assist)?
How are the white men portrayed? Heroic, cowardly, moronic, or evil?
Or is this another whollyweird feminist propaganda vehicle?
I haven't seen the movie, but that is what the trailers appear to indicate.
The military's own strength testing proves that females do not have the
strength that whollyweird constantly throws up on the screen.
This is also being proven again as trans (former-men) repeatedly succeed in 'women's' sports.
You wouldn't like the novel I'm working on even though it's about a French girl being hunted by Germans in Belgium during 1914.
It's inspired by a crazy aggressive redhead me dino spent a couple of weekends with back during the Seventies.
Babette's future husband survives the war as a fighter pilot, though a planed sequel. He starts out as a stunt pilot whose act and crew sinks with the Lusitania.
He wants to fly to hunt U-Boats by a Navy recruiter rejects him for his Irish name. So he winds up flying for the British Army.
Now is that manly enough?
Still waiting for vocal Hollywood to start using ugly, fat actors, and start equitable pay across the set. Change begins at home.
Rudolph was the first color TV show that I ever watched, down at our neighbor's who had the first color TV on the block.