Sleeping Fallacies
You know in the Disney version of the story of Sleeping Beauty, the “evil” witch makes just one person fall asleep forever, but the “good” fairy god mothers put the entire kindgom to sleep (so they wouldn’t learn that their princess had fallen asleep). More than just entire kindgom, also the king and at least some from the neighboring kingdom of Prince Phillip. Something doesn’t add up. I suppose intentions matter. The evil witch Maleficent’s intentions were jealousy and the fairy god mothers were to protect people from pain and sadness but…I think they would have gotten over it in a few days, or somewhat later. There’s also the part about the King ordering the entire village to destroy every spindle to protect the princess. That’s just plain tyranny right there. You couldn’t do that in Walt Disney’s favorite country, the United States, since we have protections against seizure of private property. But yet when you tell a story painted in pretty colors and apply the appropriate melodies at various parts to enhance the story it just all goes down like bitter medicine on a spoonful of sugar. Maleficent is really the only interesting character in that entire story and I would have loved it if she had, in her beautiful dragon form, eaten up the entire tyrannical nobility so that the plebs might have had some freedom, although I doubt she would have been so kind.. Yet the number of people harmed by her compared to the number harmed by the “good” fairy god mothers seems out of sync with the labels applied to each. That’s all.
