The Butter Battle Book from 1989
The Butter Battle Book is a rhyming story written by Dr. Seuss. It was published by Random House on January 12, 1984. It is an anti-war story; specifically, a parable about arms races in general, mutually assured destruction and nuclear weapons in particular. The Butter Battle Book was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
There was an animated TV special by animator and filmmaker Ralph Bakshi, narrated by Charles Durning and produced by and aired on TNT on November 13, 1989.[2] The special followed the book quite closely, notably in its preservation of its original cliffhanger ending, with the addition of a title card "The End (maybe)" at the conclusion of the story. Seuss himself called the short the most faithful adaptation of his work.[3][4]
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Made this thread before watching it. Just watched it.
It’s really good. If you haven’t seen this, anons, get on it
watching it now, thanks for the info and link.
was this the story referenced in the green eggs and ham netflix show?
Yes it was
Just finished it. The last shot of the two hands holding their superweapons was surprisingly well done and chilling
Seen it. It is really good.
Shitty liberak propaganda
Elaborate. Right now.
>le cold War is le bad
>ignore that the other side does horrible things and we don't
>both sides bad
Frick off with this woke shit
that the other side does horrible things and we don't
>le capitalism is just as bad/worse than communism
Frick off lib
Pointing out that weapons progressing past the point of utility and being incompatible with society is exclusive to liberals?
Think about nuclear bombs - it takes roughly forty minutes to an hour for a missile to launch from halfway around the world to reach the US mainland. As the missile arcs up into space, satellite data would inform the military on where it's going to land, by which point any army and their supplies could be cleared away from ground zero. There's only one target a bomb could be effective against - innocent and defenseless civilians. That's monstrous and that's why it's such a tragedy that the US actually used them against Japan.
The book's clearly about the futility of an arms race and the increasing abstraction of war by means of technology. There's a point where one of the officers says "even we don't know all the things it can do", to bring the point home of how irresponsible it is.
>That's monstrous and that's why it's such a tragedy that the US actually used them against Japan.
Except the Japanese were true monsters and were willing to fight to the bitter end. Operation Downfall was the planned attack on Japan. Estimates were 400,000–800,000 Americans killed and 5 to 10 million Japanese killed. The atomic bombs were the better way to end the war.
The point of the cartoon isn’t the ideologies of communism and capitalism, otherwise it wouldn’t have made the battle over something so trivial and far removed from reality. The point is the arms race.
It is bad, definitively bad, that the world governments have the capacity to destroy the entire world and all human life on it. And there is no way to place this genie back in the bottle, it’s a sorry fact of life that all of us have to live with. This cartoon is a very compelling piece of art based on this reality
why would you butter the bottom of bread
Frick off, top butterer.
Fricking Yooks and Zooks, why can't we have more Vooks who eat bread with the butter on the crust?
Because we wiped most of your degenerate race off the face of the planet.
I side with the Wooks, who eat bread with butter on BOTH sides.
What about people who butter inside?
I butter my toast and then fold it over, or butter inside bread rolls
I don’t like the butter sticking out on any side, personally
What about people who butter the crust of toast
okay fencesitter
fence sitter!, the lot of you
I butter both sides of my toast
I remember this from when I was a kid, it was dark. Made me feel weird