![]() Goldilocks comes across a house and decides to knock on the door, but when nobody answers she decides to walk right in. The story we know today begins with a little girl, named Goldilocks, walking through the forest. While the moral of the story has remained intact through its history, the character of Goldilocks was not always the little girl we now know her as. “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” is a story told to teach children respect. As more time passes, it becomes easier for us to forget the dark past behind things we may not expect. Goldilocks jumps out the window and runs off into the forest… leaving behind an economy in shambles.Nothing distorts history quite like time. The Arrogant Capitalist awakens to find herself outnumbered by the brave, hardworking, long-suffering Proletariat, who have finally become fully cognizant of the Capitalist’s crimes. The positive aspect to the story is, of course, the final outcome, which was predicted nearly 200 years ago by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and others. Davis, meanwhile, wants us to relate Goldilocks to Satan. It seems totally obvious to me that Goldilocks represents the Arrogant Capitalist, living like a parasite off the sweat of the Working Class. Not satisfied with the havoc she has already wreaked, she makes her way to the bedroom and climbs into Baby Bear’s bed, with her shoes on. She then sits down on the smallest of the handmade chairs and breaks it to pieces - indicating implicit obesity issues which were ignored by the book’s illustrator - and a perfect metaphor for the environmental destruction that results from a ‘free market’ capitalist system. Without so much as a knock on the door, she waltzes into the cabin and proceeds to gobble up Baby Bear’s porridge. When Mother Bear set the porridge on the table to cool, and the family took a stroll through the woods… who should come along but Goldilocks, an entitled blonde in a frilly cotton dress, wearing a bow in her hair. This was not a family that could afford ATVs or even mountain bikes. Their only recreation was taking walks in the woods. They subsisted on a meager diet of porridge. They dwelt in a modest cabin that probably lacked running water and was provisioned with simple, handmade furniture. Years later, however, as a somewhat more mature person, I’ve begun to perceive the hidden complexity of the Goldilocks story.įor one thing, the Bears were clearly intended to represent the Working Class. Especially - and I remember my mother properly emphasized this point, whenever she read the story to me - you don’t climb into someone’s bed without that person’s full knowledge and consent. You don’t eat someone else’s porridge, even if the temperature and consistency is just right. You don’t simply walk into people’s houses, uninvited, and sit on their furniture. Of course, even as a toddler, I was able to understand the moral of the Goldilocks story. We could lay the blame on the careless illustrators of children’s books, who - all too often - render Goldilocks without including her horns, cloven hooves, pitchfork and reptilian tail. Although the name “Goldilocks” does not actually appear in the Bible, as such… (at least, I haven’t come across it…) I’ve experienced the trials and tribulations of this earthly plane, and know all too well how much havoc an innocent-looking girl with curly hair can wreak on a person’s home.Īs a young child, sitting on my mother’s knee as she read the story aloud - ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ - I totally missed the similarity between Goldilocks and Satan. Davis has brought it to our attention, between the King of Darkness and a little girl wandering in the forest. I don’t question the obvious correlation, now that Ms. (I assume it was carefully formulated, because it did appear, in print, in the Pagosa Springs SUN.) Davis’ carefully formulated parallel between Satan and Goldilocks. How did it happen? We left our front door wide open and he freely walked in, making himself at home. He joins us around our dinner table, cozies up to us on the couch and before we know it he is sleeping in our bed. Satan shows up the same way, unannounced and uninvited, a wolf in sheep’s clothing. ![]() ![]() She ate their food, sat in their furniture and snuggled in for a nice, long nap. Of special note, perhaps, was this particular comparison:Įveryone has heard the story of the three bears and how Goldilocks came in and wreaked havoc on their little home. ![]() I noticed a well-written, religiously-oriented essay in last week’s Pagosa Springs SUN newspaper, contributed by writer Jan Davis and titled “The many disguises of Satan”. ![]()
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