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| Topic | Why is a song used to lull babies to sleep is about a baby falling to his death |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/13/18 5:29:32 AM #3: | For the same reason kids skip rope to songs about the black plague, and why parents have their kids pray before bedtime by emphasizing the idea that they might die at any moment. Death wasn't a big deal in the past, because it was pretty much everywhere all of the time. It's only stuff that's been around for centuries that gets jarring when compared with the modern era's almost pathological fear of death and everything related to it, which has us trying to censor any and all mention of it out of anything for kids. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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