Columnist Susan Wozniak: Propaganda is the crack a nation might step on
SUSAN WOZNIAK
Published: 6/28/2021 7:09:02 PM
Does folklore still matter? Is there an oral culture? In the era of social media allowing instant conversations across the world, the question might seem absurd. Unless, that is, while you’re taking your 4-year-old granddaughter for a walk, she says to you, “Gwanma, do you know if you step on a cwack, you get dead?”
I laughed but only in my mind because when I was in elementary school, kids chanted, “If you step on a crack, you break your mother’s back. If you step on a line, you break the devil’s spine.” That’s folklore, as are the games children might play at recess, like Red Rover, or the chants girls recite while jumping rope.
Weâd play cars and trucks in the dirt, run through the frog-eyed sprinkler, or â this doesnât seem right â play school, during our summer break. Remember the game that involved searching for an object, where youâd shout âyouâre getting warmer,â as the searcher approached the object or âyouâre getting colder,â when they moved farther away from it?
âYouâre so cold youâre freezingâ meant they were so far away they might as well start over.
I think Mother Natureâs playing that game with us this summer and we must have gotten really, really close. A few weeks ago I heard a little voice in my head shouting âyouâre so hot youâre burning up,â when Iâd crawl into the car after it sat in the sun all day.
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