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Originally Posted by Whitley
HI. Who (what?) is pogo?
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My new signature line is in reference to Pogo’s most famous quote — which Two Bills picked up on immediately in his post #81.
Pogo was a possum in a comic strip that was syndicated in newspapers from 1949 to 1975.
There is an article titled, “The Most Highly Controversial Comic Strip” that can be found with a Google of that title and including the words ‘JSTOR Daily’. You can also see a picture of Pogo there.
Even though I cut my teeth on Mad magazine, I was either too young or too busy to tune in to Pogo during those years when it was running in the papers.
Walt Kelly was the cartoonist and he was censored from time to time. He was around to take on the McCarthy era. Characters satirizing Joe McCarthy and others, like Khrushchev, appeared in animal form. Kelly also satirized us regular people and how we act toward each other.
The famous Pogo quote — that I am saying he was right about — applies more today than it ever did. Walt Kelly would not be able to draw fast enough to keep up now. There is waaaaay too much material.
The Barbie movie is entertaining satire, like most good satire. But certain media have their devotees all enraged over the dumbest things…….like the map. That map was nothing more than an innocent childlike drawing and was not really even noticeable. (I watched for it because I had heard the latest madness.) Geez. If that map was a threatening, dangerous, commie pinko plot (yeah, right) it was not a very good one.
As a nation, we are in a mess, having been stirred into exactly what Pogo said in that most famous quote, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” That is why when Two Bills recognized the reference, I said, “That possum was a prophet.”
Boomer
PS: Anyway, Whitley, you asked me the time and I built you a clock.
But I hope you will look up that article. I just discovered JSTOR and saw a few more articles I want to read — if I ever get around to it.