I mentioned in my blog post last night that this week would be focused on a particular theme, this week’s being Children. I came across this video yesterday (thanks to Sam) and I wanted to talk a little bit about the implications and effects of controlling education.
The video is a bit of a conundrum. I grew up as a fan of Pokemon; I turned out perfectly alright. I thought it was weird that anyone had objections to people being fans of Pokemon. Then again, it’s the same issue people face when talking about the latest book banning controversies. Adults seem to have a problem with their kids and the fact that they’re supposed to grow up with an imagination. I want to just point out a few things to this preacher, and any other over-preachy Christian Evangelicals out there.
1) If you follow the New Age teaching, you find out that masters…
Are we supposed to follow the New Age teaching? I had no idea that we had to interpret the world through a Christian lens, using New Age teachings as a background.
2) The child at some point becomes capable of taking these powers and channelling them…
I’ve heard of willpower before, and I know there are cases of some strange things, but really? You seriously think that children can learn to channel and control spirits by watching a show which is about other kids, who have physical creatures before them?
3) …using power sources. These powers sources are many of the symbols they pick up in the Pokemon paraphernalia.
Okay, first of all, what? What power sources? In real life, it’s not possible to give that many toys ways to channel power. Creating even a pseudo-power source would be near impossible since no one (not even the Japanese) understand “the spirits” well enough to harness their powers, much less giving children a way to use them. Second, even if these power sources exist, why would the Japanese give them to our kids? They have children who are probably much more capable than we are, after all, everything electronically good awesome comes from there.
4) So Pokemon is a game which teaches children to enter into the world of witchcraft, how to cast spells, how to use psychic phenomena, how to put forward supernatural powers against their enemies, how to fantasy role play…
Three words. Fantasy.Role.Play.
5) While you may not take it so seriously, I assure you, the demons take it seriously, and Satan takes it seriously.
He assures us. I really needed to know that.
6) Jigglypuff is the devil.
Yes, yes it is. Damn Lullaby.
At this point, I think I’m done ridiculing this video. The main thing to take from it though is that some people don’t know how to teach children about life. With Christian Evangelicals, it seems that they can’t even give children a chance to explore a world full of fun little critters who (with the exception of a few) are worthy of a child’s time and imagination.
Children need to be given a chance to explore the world in every little way; video games, books, movies. Of course there are some limits to how far they can go, but without the chance to explore, the child won’t develop properly; they will either age too quickly, or not age at all. Instead of banning things, and demonizing them, just give them the chance to make a mistake, instead of making the mistake for them.
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