part three of thoughts from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Musical
Edmund is made to look mean by taking gifts from the White Witch, as are all the other creatures who follow her, but how often do we take “sweets” from a stranger because we are lost, cold, tired, and a bit fed up with those around us. [Do remember these are children that had been sent to a stranger’s house and their parents were “helping with the war effort”]
So thinking back to those unempowered people who are struggling with no jobs, no prospects, with generational traumas, and don’t quite fit the school system. They feel disempowered and want to blame “them”. So a stranger comes along and offers them a way out – for instance by blaming immigrants, by blaming the EU, by blaming ….
I think even those in good jobs, with good houses, with what one could call “prospects” can also, when life gets tough and they are tired, feel like “someone needs to sort something out” and finish up taking “sweets” from strangers who look hopeful and friendly.
Interestingly we’ve started watching The Escape Artist with David Tennant on Netflix. In one scene he says to his wife “The world is broken” and yet, if you look at it, he is part, and helping to keep in place, this broken world in his role as a defence lawyer who helps even guilty people to get off. [It is worth watching] His “sweets” are the huge pay packet he gets for being a barrister.
How often are we part of the broken world we bemoan and yet are doing nothing to change it. Going back to the last post of – are we using are gifts or do we think they aren’t good enough or that “someone else” should be doing it? Have we taken the “turkish delight” from a stranger because we were cold, tired and a bit fed up with everyone?
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