One fish red fish blue fish5/31/2023 ![]() Yet, each of them is an individual and, as such, different from one another. "One fish two fish red fish blue fish" (and every other kind of fish one can come up with in one's noggin) are all, at the end of the day, fish. On the one hand, he champions liberal individualism and on the other, he is alarmed at individualism as a potentially devouring and alienating force. Trusting the instinctive mind of the child more than the instructed mind of adults, Seuss holds up before them the fissures within democracy and the thin line that separates it from fascism. A children's writer, he believed, served democracy by teaching kids to respect and trust their internal responses to an unjust world. For Seuss, the child was born in an Edenic state, outside of adult corruption yet already possessing the virtue of a democratic citizen and, at the same time, naturally resistant to propaganda. Dr Seuss, as he is popularly known, donned many a hat in his lifetime - political cartoonist, film-maker, War-time propagandist and so on - but he was most successful in the role of a children's writer. ![]() This deceptively simple line best captures the tension that Theodor Seuss Geisel - who died 27 Septembers ago - explored in his works. One fish two fish red fish blue fish 'One fish two fish red fish blue fish' (and every other kind of fish one can come up with in one's noggin) are all, at the end of the day, fish. ![]()
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