One day I was singing the song from Disney's Cinderella, the one that goes, "We can do it, we can do it, we can help out Cinderelly," when my then-housemate started singing some awful violent rap song, and said that he preferred that to a song for babies.
And I couldn't help but think, that there is good reason that I was singing that little Disney song.
As someone (I think it was Jonathan Swift himself who wrote it) said of Gulliver's Travels, the words are for children but the ideas are for men.
To put it bluntly, the song is all about helping people.
We could live our lives by the ideas in that little Disney song.
The words are for children, but the ideas are for men.
Whereas that violent rap song may sound adult and grown-up and everything, but its ideas are practically infantile.
The Disney children's song is infinitely more mature than the grown-up sounding violent rap song.
In the rap song, the words are for men, but the ideas are infantile.
In the Disney song, the words are for children, but the ideas are for men.
I know which one I would turn to for ideas on how to live my life!
Something to think about.
God loves you! And God wants us to help each other, like in that Disney song!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson
P.S. If you want rap songs to live your life by, there are plenty of good Tupac songs out there! And others like him!
P.P.S. that then-housemate got kicked out after he punched the landlord in the face- the landlord who is a very good, responsible 'Black' man who is a good friend! That bad rap music sure led him astray! And it certainly didn't encourage him to be nice to 'black' people like my landlord! But Tupac would have led him to maturity and good sense.
P.P.P.S. That former housemate- I pray for him. He has had a hard life. God wants him to be nice to people, but God will pity him!