Thus Conscience Doth Make Crickets of Us All

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Thus Conscience Doth Make Crickets of Us All

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Tim Madigan is startled by the form of the angel on his shoulder.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/74/Thus_Conscience_Doth_Make_Crickets_of_Us_All
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Philosophy Now wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 6:28 pm Tim Madigan is startled by the form of the angel on his shoulder.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/74/Thu ... _of_Us_All
Walt Disney was smart to spruce up the Talking Cricket, putting on a top hat, tying up his white tie, and brushing up his tails. Jiminy Cricket earns his 18 Carat Gold Official Conscience Badge from the Blue Fairy by giving good advice through personal example and sincere friendship. As Walt Disney so astutely understood, nobody likes to be scolded. We want a conscience with a touch of class!
An aside but along the lines of Jiminy’s popularity … Clothes make the cricket, clothes made the 1930’s man. A man with nicely tailored clothes in 1930’s America, Disney’s primary audience who had just lived through the thirties, had to know a thing or two and that usually revealed in speaking well. Such a person would be someone to hear.

In those days a lot of first jobs were shining shoes because there was a need for those with tailored clothes to keep clean, and there was money to be made in the right shining location, prized and protected by hired protection of an informal sort. It was fashion to keep clean and there were dirty jobs keeping folks who knew a thing or two, clean.

Disney’s audience revered education, knowledge and wisdom. Those led to clean jobs, most prized in 1940 America when folks were seeking dinner rather than searching for themselves.

Jiminy dispensed his observations in a creaky, critckity voice like a grandpa, the paying kind of grandpa who would likely treat his grandchild to the movies with popcorn, a corn dog with mustard, and a soda, even if he had to work a second job to afford it on some really special occasion like a birthday, or Christmas. Marketing target dates.

In those days Disney was magic. Today, it still is. These days Disney has lots of magical miracles, but do any of these miracles involve God?
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Crickets should sign up for the England cricket team, they are useless over here, thank f** I don't have to go to an office anymore and put up with all the snide remarks - they never liked me saying I saw some of the Aussie team in the hardware store looking for a small orbital sander. :mrgreen:
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Philosophy Now wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 6:28 pm Tim Madigan is startled by the form of the angel on his shoulder.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/74/Thu ... _of_Us_All
Ethicists such as Thomas Aquinas, Joseph Butler and Immanuel Kant grappled mightily with the question of the nature of our conscience – that inner voice which tells us when we are acting rightly or wrongly.
But for all their learned writings, none of these wise gentlemen have had as major an impact on the popular understanding of the conscience as Walt Disney, who gave us its best known representative – Jiminy Cricket, the dapper, devil-may-care bug with a song in his heart who is always willing to give advice to his pal Pinocchio on proper behavior.


Wrong!

Kant dealt on the subject of conscience seriously.
https://web.stanford.edu/~allenw/webpap ... cience.pdf

Disney's Jiminy Cricket merely give us a 'cricket' [gnat] inkling of 'what is conscience' [public knowledge] without any foundation, knowledge, mechanics, how to cultivate it and all its epistemological aspects.
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