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Daniel, I think Lorax is just saying that the voters who consider themselves part of the “sensible center” still exist, but are no longer particularly key swing voters between the two parties (at least at the national level).
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Paul Feine of the Institute for Humane Studies suggests the Lorax is subject to alternative interpretations.
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As is, perhaps, another interpretation in which the Lorax is himself an owner whose property rights are ignored by an unaccountable corporation.
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Either way, the Lorax is easily seen a story about property rights — or the lack thereof — and the inevitable environmental consequences of poor institutions.
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The company that protects the copyrights on the works of Theodore Geisel, better known as the children's book author Dr. Seuss, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Massachusetts company looking to get into the coal business under the name Lorax - the title character of a story published in 1971.
Peak Oil News 2010
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The company that protects the copyrights on the works of Theodore Geisel, better known as the children's book author Dr. Seuss, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Massachusetts company looking to get into the coal business under the name Lorax - the title character of a story published in 1971.
Peak Oil News 2010
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Dr. Seuss’ story of the Lorax is an environmental classic (as is the television version that I’ve just seen).
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My reaction these days to The Lorax is roughly the same as Adler’s: that pretty much everyone involved in the story was thinking in a caricaturishly short-sighted manner, that those failures are the real lesson, and that the book makes a pretty poor argument but for it being a children’s book which can claim a pretense of not intending to have rigor.
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Am I the only one who tears up when the Lorax is finally forced to leave?)
2010 January « 2010
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Am I the only one who tears up when the Lorax is finally forced to leave?) 3 Responses to “I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees ...”
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