Happy Thanksgiving!
[NOTE: This is a slightly-edited repeat of a previous post]
I wish all of you a wonderful Thanksgiving. Here’s some corny American pictorial propaganda in honor of the occasion, one of my favorite holidays:
This painting was not originally created for the Thanksgiving holiday. It was part of Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” series of 1941. Inspired by a post-Pearl Harbor speech of FDR’s about the war effort and why we were fighting, and designed to help sell war bonds, this particular one illustrated “Freedom from Want.”
So on this Thanksgiving Day I’ll reiterate the sentiment: may we all have freedom—of religion, of speech, from want, from fear.
This year, it just so happens that today is an extraordinarily singular day: the first day of Chanukah begins on Thanksgiving, making it Thanksgivukkah.
Happy Thanksgiving/Channukah. Maybe not the point of the post, but I keep thinking “freedom from want” is a step down the slippery slope towards “guaranteed income.”
Dirty socialists.
Freedom from want and from fear are not on my list of freedoms. Only the nanny state can attempt to provide (and cannot succeed in providing) those corrupting “freedoms.” And of course FDR was a great nannystater.
Happy Thanksgiving, Jean!
happy Thanksgiving….
that kind of family picture was murdered by feminism..
though i think some of the “updated” versions are interesting… (in their commentary)
Simpsons…
http://absenceofalternatives.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Simpsons-Rockwell-Thanksgiving.jpg
Two modern family versions…
http://cdn.crushable.com/files/2012/11/Modern-Family-Thanksgiving-sitcom.jpg
http://revgalblogpals.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/modern-family-thanksgiving.jpg
what can be best described as post modern trailer trash
http://www.diseaseproof.com/uploads/image/norman%20rockwell%20modern.bmp
japanese manga
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T3hFFgYN_Fs/UKk8IXAmtqI/AAAAAAAAQtA/CrQh74FhcEc/s1600/Giving_Anime_Thanks_by_shido_burrito.jpg
sesame street kermit mrs piggy version
http://absenceofalternatives.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Muppet-Rockwell-Thanksgiving-by-Vic-Romano.jpg
the fantastic four marvel version
http://absenceofalternatives.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Fantastic-Four-Rockwell-Thanksgiving.jpg
[yes there is a DC version]
and the disney version
http://i843.photobucket.com/albums/zz352/loaloauk/Universal%20Singapore/Disney%20and%20more/disneythanksgiving.jpg?t=1290684715
[making one wonder what the duck thinks]
Happy Thanksgivukkah!
I love the T-shirts.
I agree that freedom (more accuarately protection) from want and fear are impossible ‘freedoms’. There is no possible guarantee that we shall not want or fear. Under the laws of a just society we are instead required to be responsible to protect ourselves (and our families) from want and fear to the best of our abilities.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Freedom from want is socialism.
Get a job.
In my youth, I can remember plenty of Thanksgivings that agreed with Rockwell’s painting.
No, it was never universal but it was once the norm.
And the norm cannot be mere ‘propaganda’.
What IS propaganda is the left’s incessant claims that the social norms of the past were wildly exaggerated or never even existed.
The social cohesion that allowed America to respond so magnificently in WWII could never have happened had those ‘imaginary’ norms not existed.
Happy belated Thanksgiving to all.
@Geoffrey Britain
I was watching a “best of” Saturday Night Live and was struck that all of their portrayals of family Thanksgivings were dysfunctional. Sure, they’re going for the funny but I can’t help but think the left sees these gatherings as hotbeds of hostility.
That may have been the writers’ experience, but I would guess it doesn’t match most Americans’.
Matt,
The left indeed has that POV, their ideology demands it. I long ago reached that conclusion of Saturday Night Live’s writers, producers and ‘creative artists’. I haven’t watched it since before John Belushi died.