Mr. Fish Toon- A Free Man

[BlueStreak]

16. One has to manage lots of cognitive dissonance in a religion-dominated world

Maybe the "Great Pumpkin" was Shultz' way of dealing with it.

I would rather people would just be honest, standing up saying "This is bullcrap! We shouldn't let these cults dominate our world. We shouldn't fill our children's brains full of this crap. We should recognize we are here together and we have to find a way to get along without having to invent imaginary characters."

But if he did, he would end up like Mr Fish instead of being enormously wealthy. Integrity has its price.

"Over the nearly 50 years that Peanuts was published, Schulz drew nearly 18,000 strips. The strips themselves, plus merchandise and product endorsements, produced revenues of more than $1 billion per year, with Schulz earning an estimated $30 million to $40 million annually."