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The Jungle Book
Pedros_Ecosse - I always look this confused! :) Started conversation May 27, 2009
I have a 1932 edition of the Jungle Book at home with the Swastika and the elephant exactly like the picture in the entry
Really enjoyed it thouroughly good read!
The Jungle Book
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted May 27, 2009
Thanks, Galaxy Babe.
I read Kipling's "Just so stories" when I was a kid. Kipling fell out of fashion for a number of decades, but lately he is being read again because it's been concluded that few others have written as well about that era and mindset.
As for contemporary uses of the swastika, I will remember that if there's an elephant in the design, the context is not a Western one . Context matters.
In the West, the swastika is still a problem, because there are still people who fancy themselves Nazis. Was Hitler's regime a giant monkey wrench that was thrown into Western history to set everyone back a few centuries, or was it a continuation of bad trends that people recognized but were too weak/ignorant/self-absorbed to change until it was too late?
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