thomblake comments on Joy in the Merely Real - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 16 February 2012 04:38:28PM 6 points [-]

Disney's The Little Mermaid riffs on this

But from the main character's point of view, it seems like it's doing the opposite. Her father has a magical trident and she dreams of dinner forks.

Comment author: Raemon 16 February 2012 05:22:52PM 1 point [-]

Her father has a magical trident and she dreams of dinner forks.

That is a particularly brilliant way of framing it.

Comment author: thomblake 23 February 2012 03:16:20PM 1 point [-]

Thanks!

Comment author: juliawise 16 February 2012 06:00:28PM 2 points [-]

And we have airplanes but we dream about flying on brooms.

Comment author: Vamair0 13 November 2015 09:50:43AM 0 points [-]

Broom is to an airplane as a motorcycle is to a train. Also, I'd guess a lot of people want their own broom exactly because nobody else has one.