Post: #1

It's a little ambiguous..

Post: #2

I see the message as: the arrogant will be punished for their avarice and cruelty (the wolf). And that good deeds will ultimately be rewarded (striped-back getting his house back).

But, yes, a bit opaque.

Post: #3

Interesting that the good guy doesn't automatically win... Seems there's a certain strain of fatalism in Russian culture, that evil and tyranny will always exist so it's almost helpless to resist, better to just cope with it. You can't outsmart power for long, so just accept your serfdom. If this were American, the wolf would meet its demise, and good would triumph. American culture has always been sappy in this way, wanting to believe what makes us feel good, because the idea that evil prospers deeply upsets us. Thus, saying that a man can prosper in a relationship with (some) women through strategic deployment of abuse is deeply upsetting to an American.

The wolf seems a lot like the feudal nobleman, who'd take at will from all the peasants on his land. You can fuck with the lord, but in the long run the lord will do as he pleases.

I know very little about Russian culture though.

Post: #4

The Badger builds stuff, the fox is sly, the rabbit is overly optimistic and the fox is cruel. Is there a moral to Bugs bunny cartoons? I think this is just entertainment in the form of different characters interacting.

Post: #5

Post: #6

Moral: be the wolf and bang the fox. This every Russian knows.

Post: #7

Roosh, do you watch any of the old soviet era movies?

Post: #8

To watch a truly disturbing tale of life in the Soviet Union watch "The Inner Circle," the true story of Stalin's personal KGB projectionist. Many people who lived in the Soviet Union have claimed that this is the most accurate portrayal of life in the Soviet Union.

Quote:The true story is of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until Stalin's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero maintains unwavering faith in his "Master" despite the arrest of his neighbors and his involvement with their daughter, his wife's affair with the chilling State Security chief Lavrentii Beria and her tragic decline, and the deadly political machinations within the Kremlin he witnesses firsthand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_C...91_film%29

Post: #9

(01-11-2014 10:19 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:  I see the message as: the arrogant will be punished for their avarice and cruelty (the wolf). And that good deeds will ultimately be rewarded (striped-back getting his house back).

But, yes, a bit opaque.

Yes but the badger only got the plot of land back, the house was destroyed. For helping the wolf, he got less than he gave.

The wolf started where he began. I don't think he was truly punished.

The moral seems to be "Don't to too greedy." If the wolf stopped halfway through, he would have kept his ill-gotten gains.

Post: #10

I think it's Christianity in cartoon form. He finally got through to the wolf by helping him.

Post: #11

It does seem like the message is "don't be too greedy."

Post: #12

The wolf is the party apparatchik.

He does what he pleases, via implied force and shaming. Note the implication that his great grandpa owned the stuff for ions.
Which is rather odd, since elimination of inheritance and family ties were crucial to communist dogma.

Also note the use of, "nu pogadi" by the fox.

When the wolf over reaches, one of the serfs comes to the rescue.

Moral of the story, move to America and demand government accountability and property rights.

If you want to practice your russian,
War and Peace is on youtube, all of it.