Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Neither green eggs nor ham

Here’s a blast from the past that demonstrates the truth of George Santayana’s dictum that those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.


In the run-up to the Second World War, Theodor Seuss Geisel drew some quite acerbic political cartoons as he witnessed the United States wallowing in self-congratulatory isolationism that had immediate and long-term human consequences.

The man generations of children know as Dr. Seuss was the grandson of German immigrants; he understood the wealth of perspectives newcomers contributed to the nation, as well as the forward momentum they brought as they pitched in to make life better for themselves and their children, as well as their new neighbors.

What would he make of our current regression to the 1930s, I wonder?



2 comments:

  1. There children? I usually do not see you make a grammatical mistake so it made my day to see you can make the same mistakes as a mere human like me.

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  2. Well spotted, sir. Writers can ALWAYS benefit from editing. Now corrected; thanks!

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