Why do people give children books with "cute" animals drawn? They are not similar to most of the real animals alive, making children think that the real animals are ugly. But do they really? Or is just the opposite? As Wolf Erlbruch says, most of the animals, humans and other things are not classically beautiful, but they sure are fascinating in their unique way of being.
How many times do we see people talking about beautiful patterns? And how much time do we spend talking about the unique way of the beings around us (humans, animals and so on)? Nobody seems proud of being strange in his own way or beautiful in his own way. But are they really happy of pursuing the classical beautiful pattern? Did they really want to be what they are now, or have they forgotten themselves a long time ago?
Difficult to see happiness in the face of a fat woman these days. Gays are just killed socially as Nazis have done with them for real. I am sure that if a gay could become a hetero he would, because there are places for a hetero kiss but no place for a homo kiss. What a Sadness to see lot of women using a cloth done for people with 50kg. Or seeing women getting really ugly to feel beautiful. Would not they be more beautiful if they accept themselves?
And what about the books? Have you seen what people buys for children nowadays?
Books where the hero achieves the objective without sacrifice, where the princess is found by a beautiful man or even wait for some miracle to change their live to better. But my simple question is, how does it tastes to win something without struggle? Even if the prize is great, how much value does a Porsche t
hat you have yourself sacrificed for and one that you received from your father for your 18th birthday have? We have the temptation of answering the question with the easy alternative, but do this really change the best answer? This is how our society is today, people prefer to give money to lottery (miracle) instead of saving it for an objective. There are no punishment for actions in these books, no great idea that saves someone, no struggle. Just an easy (boring) way of winning. Well if this is what we really want, it would be sad, cause we would be kind of empty.
I do not think we are, maybe some of us have only happened to not see the world by their own eyes. Because they were forced to copy a world model from society. But they could start figuring their own world out.
There will be always a marvelous universe, it is not the same of an hour ago and it is not the same as the one seen by another person, and sadly its stars receive a look only when there are fireworks.
Wolf Erlbruch, that I mentioned above, is a German illustrator that draws and writes books for children. Some of his illustrations are presented overall the text. There is also an article about him here (in German).
