Yooks and Zooks

So perhaps the highlight of my day today was reading "The Butter Battle Book" by Dr. Seuss to Eden.  I had forgotten how it ended and she declared it a mystery. I asked her who she wanted to win and she said the Yooks, because the "good guys" always deserve to win. It is interesting how we get our notion of how we get "good guys" sometime.  Although it is true that the winners write history, does that mean that the writers of the history are any more good than the less articulate? Hhmm... After she made her declaration I told her that in fact the Yooks did win, but they killed about 200,000 Zooks in the process. (I gathered this statistic from when the USA dropped the bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki). So did the Yooks really win? The Butter Battle Book is essentially a book about the escalation of war, how we always reach for the next great thing, and as soon as we attain it our enemy has something more deadly and better.

The other thing to consider in this book is why the two sides were fighting in the first place? Well, because the Yooks (like me) wanted to butter their toast with the butter side up, while the Zooks wanted to butter their toast with the butter side down. This is tricky for me, because I am not a believer in the COEXIST bumper sticker. We do need to be tolerant of each others' points of view, no matter how different, and at the same time not endorse those points of view.

On another note... I feel we are on day two and I haven't meandered enough yet, so today was filled with moving furniture. Shout out to my friend (you know who you are... not that you would ever in a million years read this, but your wife might)... and I looked over some differences in habits that Dave Ramsey compiled between wealthy and poor people. Perhaps I will discuss these another day... or perhaps not.