The sun is out.
There is no tornado in the wind.
My roof isn’t burning.
So why do I feel like there is a chicken
in my yard yelling
The sky is falling.
The Sky is falling.
Perhaps we need to consider the story of Chicken Little.
Taken from Wikipedia and IMDB
The Chicken Little story was told by Just Mathias Thiele (1795-1874). In America it was popularized by John Green Chandler, with Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879), who wrote the rhyme ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb.’ The moral messages in the story are
1. 1. don’t
form incorrect conclusions from insufficient data;
2. 2. don’t
stoke fear in others without good cause to do so; and
3. 3. don’t
take other people’s word for things, especially when those other people are
making extraordinary claims
Disney produced a short film in
1943 warning about mass hysteria, with specific reference to the Nazis. Produced
as a propaganda short during WWII, warning audiences not to believe
anti-American propaganda. Originally the film was to have had more direct
references to the war: Foxy Loxy would have read from "Mein Kampf";
and the chicken's graves would have been marked by swastikas. But Walt Disney
decided to keep the film generic so that it would not become dated after the
war.
The 2005 Disney adaptation completely
changed the plot (by adding aliens, whose spaceship, or parts of it, really do
fall from the sky), in the 2005 version, Chicken Little is right to
spread mass fear among the townsfolk and is thus vindicated.
To decide if the sky is falling read the
piece by Corran Anderson
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