Today is Friday, January 14, 2022. Watching some of the news and it’s all gloom and doom. Kind of got me thinking, and I’m going to start off with a story about lemmings.
Back in the 50’s, Disney was very good at making nature documentaries. It dove-tailed very well with their family-friendly movies and television programs. They had an image to maintain. In 1958, they created a nature documentary called “White Wilderness” about wildlife in the far northern regions. One segment of the show featured lemmings, small rodents in the same family as voles and muskrats. It was in this documentary that the legend/myth was created that lemmings committed mass suicide.
From the Alaska Department of Fish and Game:
“According to a 1983 investigation by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation producer Brian Vallee, the lemming scenes were faked. The lemmings supposedly committing mass suicide by leaping into the ocean were actually thrown off a cliff by the Disney filmmakers. The epic “lemming migration” was staged using careful editing, tight camera angles and a few dozen lemmings running on snow covered lazy-Susan style turntable.
“White Wilderness” was filmed in Alberta, Canada, a landlocked province, and not on location in lemmings’ natural habitat. There are about 20 lemming species found in the circumpolar north – but evidently not in that area of Alberta. So the Disney people bought lemmings from Inuit children a couple provinces away in Manitoba and staged the whole sequence.
In the lemming segment, the little rodents assemble for a mass migration, scamper across the tundra and ford a tiny stream as narrator Winston Hibbler explains that, “A kind of compulsion seizes each tiny rodent and, carried along by an unreasoning hysteria, each falls into step for a march that will take them to a strange destiny.”
That destiny is to jump into the ocean. As they approach the “sea,” (actually a river -more tight cropping) Hibbler continues, “They’ve become victims of an obsession — a one-track thought: Move on! Move on!”
The “pack of lemmings” reaches the final precipice. “This is the last chance to turn back,” Hibbler states. “Yet over they go, casting themselves out bodily into space.”
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These days I’ve heard more than one talking head say that they would rather die than take the vaccine.
I can’t help but draw a comparison. It’s not natural to kill yourself, but some folks apparently are willing to do so rather than take a vaccine because they are afraid.
Seems to be trending.
I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Peace y’all.
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What I have a hard time with is the latest decision of scotus holding the vaccine mandate (as soft as it is) for large companies vs leaving it standing for health care workers – now how do you explain that? I am not sure legislating a virus works.