I've never posted video before, but this stuff is too good. First of all, watch Uncle Fred breakdance:
Now. It's a sad sad statement about our mentality in this day and age, after stumbling our way through the confusing Eighties and the confused Nineties, that you can't watch Mr. Rogers without thinking that he's maybe a little perverse. Creepy. You don't want him to touch that poor little boy. It's a total klipah (as we say here in Israel)- an unhealthy and distorted way of looking at the world. Any time an adult male gives gentle attention to children, our pedophile alarm goes off.
Mr. Rogers was perhaps the only guy who ever just damn CARED. Watch this:
He's sweet, humble, gentle, encouraging, trusting. Did I mention humble? He thanks US over and over again for all the things that HE gave us. And more than that, he's a national hero. Watch this hard-ass Senator absolutely melt:
Taking a look at Mr. Rogers again is a great opportunity for us to explore just how much the past 30 years have hosted the perversion and exploitation of every realm of human existence, and just how jaded we've become because of it.
Sigh.
Then again, some bored academics have something else to say about livin' in the 'Hood (go back and click "bored academics"). They say that Mr. Rogers made us all narcissistic wimps.
And, of course, there is evidence that Mr. Rogers was in league with one of the Masters of Evil:
