The Jr. VP can at times be quite a philosopher. Yesterday, he was wrestling with a quote from St. Thomas Aquinas*, trying to understand how it relates to the nature of good and evil and his own capacity for both. He used the following demonstration to illustrate for me his current thinking with on the topic at hand. Or something like that. Stinkboy last night:
“I’m Spider-Man, I’ll save you!” [said with normal voice]
He then spins 180 degrees and faces the other direction.
“Oh no, I’m Bad Spider-Man! I’m gonna get you!” [said in Monster Voice]
Spins again.
“Yay, I’m Spider-Man!” [normal voice]
Another spin.
“Watch out Daddy, I’m Bad Spider-Man!” [Monster Voice]
He repeated this quite a few times, until finally the Daddy-Robot attacked Bad Spider-Man and we had our showdown. Evil prevailed.
The Jr. VP is slightly obsessed with Spider-Man right now. The weird thing is that as far as I know he’s never seen any of the movies, cartoons, comic books, or other normal media featuring Spider-Man. I know that a friend of his at ’school’ has a Spider-Man back-pack that Stinkboy talks about constantly and I know that he has seen a Spidey toy or two. He has also heard me singing the Spider-Man song (it confuses him a bit when I start singing about Spider-Pig) but that’s about it. Not really sure why he is so fascinated but I’ve learned just to roll with it when the lad gets obsessed like this. It’s a lot easier than trying to understand it.
The lucky lad very recently acquired himself a Spider-Man t-shirt, and as is his way he refuses to take it off. Ever. He wears it over his pajamas at night. The solution to the that problem is coming at Christmas (turn away now if you are reading, Stinky): the lad will find some Spider-Man pajamas under the tree this year. I hope his head doesn’t explode.
* “A capacity for good and a capacity for evil are one and the same capacity. To realize the good, dispositions are necessary.” — Aquinas
