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Saturday, January 06, 2007 - (see all news for this day)
babar the elephant - 10:29 AM
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i saw a babar the elephant dvd on sale at the video shop the other day, so i bought it for smiley. i remember my sister & i used to love him when we were kids & i thought smiley might be the same. having now watched it once or twice, he does seem to quite like it. 
anyway, looking at it now, as an adult, i still like the story, but some of the concepts kind of grate on me. why should the elephants, who live perfectly happily in their own environment, doing things in elephant ways, be considered more sophisticated & civilised if they're wearing clothes & building cities? seems to me that the place went downhill when humans started doing that.
ah...civilization. you know, the south pacific islanders were a lot more happy before people visited them and told them they were miserable.
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I think that's true of a lot of things we thought were great as kids. They might seem fine to kids now too, but as more aware adults they're not so crash hot anymore.