Evolutionary Anthropomorphic Nonsense

PBS’ new season has begun and I have watched a number of their new shows.  Specifically the shows The Botany of Desire; based on Michael Pollan’s new book The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World; Born Wild: The First Days of Life, and Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions.

The cinematography in the above shows is outstanding, but the anthropomorphic nonsense uttered in the narration for the shows is akin to spewing Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey as words to live by.

Each of the above PBS shows so anthropomorphize their subject matter, to the accompaniment of carefully arranged musical scores, that the common viewer is soon emotionally swooning and waxing eloquently over their dog, hamster, hydrangea, crab grass or what have you’s ability to display their uncanny human consciousness that you believe they will soon ask to go to the library, or borrow the keys to the car, and not simply metaphorically.  Though in fairness, the show based on Pollan’s book does use the word metaphorically, when ascribing human consciousness to plants, one time and one time only.

This type of anthropomorphic nonsense is Tooheyist, and is indicative of the constant belittling of the greatness of man which assails individuals today from all quarters in the march to the total collectivization of the world.

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