Common Sense Strikes Back: An “Answer” To “The Lorax”
Well, I’ll be darned. Remember a few days back when I was talking about “The Lorax” being used for indoctrinization? Apparently, I’m not the only one who felt so. The timber industry created a response to Dr. Seuss’ original work.
A satirical story aimed at children, the story, drawn in Dr. Seuss’ style and written in similar rhyming meter tells the story from the logger’s point of view, with this the woodland creature seeming ignorant. So… is this dirty pool? Perhaps, but Seuss opened the door for this time of sermonizing aimed at the young, and if he can take time off for writing about elephants and cats and hats, and Raymond Briggs can pause from his cute stories about snowmen to tell the delightful tale of a nice English couple slowing dying from nuclear fallout, surely conservatives have just as much right to use this medium to share their world views, too.
Give the story a read, I’m sure you’ll find it entertaining.
–Stephen Payne, Editor, Oil and Gas Investor This Week; spayne@hartenergy.com
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March 28th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
What an interesting find! Thanks for sharing. Although this is not written in iambic pentameter, so it doesn’t stand a chance against Seuss.;-)