{"id":6318,"date":"2018-11-11T14:03:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T14:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6318"},"modified":"2018-11-11T14:03:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T14:03:53","slug":"uneducated-cavemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2018\/11\/11\/uneducated-cavemen\/","title":{"rendered":"“Uneducated cavemen”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to the “uneducated cavemen” slur on Stokies, heard about in the last few days, I went looking for a suitable image which might perhaps be adapted as a riposte. But, in the end, such leftist ignorance probably only deserves to be ignored. <\/p>\n

But along the way I did find a fascinating subset of ‘the imaginative illustration’ type: the prehistoric visualisation of early man’s history. Many appeared more widely, it seems, than just in books. They also appeared on things like collectable cards and stamps…<\/p>\n

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There are also many such in large-format, in outstanding children’s picture books such as The Story of Man<\/a><\/em> (1960).<\/p>\n

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If I could afford to be a collector of originals, rather than a curator of digital copies, I’d consider making a collection of the best of such illustrations.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, one example shown above is of collectables given away in chocolate wrappers. People of a certain age commonly associated such cards\/stickers sets with cigarette packets and Brooke Bond tea packets. But you have to wonder if modern chocolate manufactures are missing a trick, when it comes to what little collectable cards might be placed inside the wrappers of their non-kiddie products. Perhaps they might not be a set of collectables, but rather be communicative — the card could be stamped with a pre-paid postage mark, and thus encourage the good old-fashioned writing and posting of picture postcards. By having the Post Office track where the cards were sent from the company could build of a ‘heat-map’ of England showing where their most dedicated engagers are. And all without pestering their buyers in any way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to the “uneducated cavemen” slur on Stokies, heard about in the last few days, I went looking for a suitable image which might perhaps be adapted as a riposte. But, in the end, such leftist ignorance probably only deserves to be ignored. But along the way I did find a fascinating subset of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}