I saw a Coca-Cola truck drive by earlier, and my brain went to those cartoons where two trucks carrying disastrous-things-in-combination crash into one another (a Coke truck and a Mentos truck), or crash near a person and spill their contents on said person (a glue truck and a feathers truck), or follow one another into a gulch to explosive consequence (a fireworks truck and a truck full of matches), and I realize that this is a big part of the childhood brain. You want to see explosions. You want to see things crash into each other. As a little boy, I once spent hours on a car ride on vacation slamming two Hot Wheels cars from a Happy Meal against one another head first in a “demolition derby” (was a big fan of the County Fair). Crashes and explosions are fun. But they’re also terrible, inflicting destruction and pain. So my question: Why hasn’t anyone created a media enterprise whose sole purpose is to make things explode and crash into each other and various combinations of things like that, but without the collateral damage to life that comes from such happenings? Why do we not televise crash tests?
And that, in turn, brings me to the only possible explanation: Sesame Street, through its PBS power, has somehow made this illegal without anyone knowing so that it can remain the top entertainment for children.
Big government? Try Big Bird.
