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Nickelodeon teaching children about anarchy/free markets


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My little guy was watching tv and this just happened to come on.  I was shocked.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFdPEAyr32s

 

Skip to about 7 minutes.  Basically, there's some soda they all enjoy but it's been made illegal.  So they get into the business of making and selling it themselves, partly to make money and partly because they just enjoy the stuff.  Eventually a detective finds out they're the ones making it, and as he's shouting at them about busting them, they demand to know why it should be illegal?  He says, well, because it's bad for you.  The kids run through some of the arguments you generally hear against prohibition about free choice and not hurting anyone.  Eventually they show the cop the error of his ways, and he breaks down in tears and apologizes.

 

The cop is the typical abusive (as abusive as you'll see on a kids show) authoritarian type, very stereotypical.

 

Anyone else shocked by this?  Obviously nickelodeon isn't promoting anarchism intentionally.  Maybe these concepts are just so intuitive they're difficult to avoid?

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