Real Little Lambs

In an attempt to simplify things for children, many entertainment venues have good guys and bad guys, but even Lennon, who is only three, will explain to me that this super hero, or that one, is not all bad, or all good. Small statures and big eyes only hide the intelligence behind them, they don’t stunt it.

Encourage children to read and listen, to learn and think, and they begin to realize that not only is good and bad subjective, but all labels are just one aspect of something. By the time you get to my age, you start to see that labels are generally placed in different places by different perspectives.

Life is neither simple, nor two dimensional. The more dimensions I find, the more fascinated I become. This is not true for some people. George Orwell illustrates one of the most common ways of controlling those who either can’t, or don’t like to think, with his sheep‘s slogan, “four legs good, two legs bad.” Eventually there are those who really do fall into these sad stereotypes, because they lack the desire, or courage, or ability to reason.

In any event, it is not a debate. To think, or not to think, that is really the question -- and then there is living with the reality of it. Personally I am not particularly fond of real sheep. If Mary took her lamb to school, she must have had a good groomer, because if you don’t dock their tails and keep them sheared they get caught up in all sorts of messes and they smell terrible!