It's quite astonishing.
In the early eighties, there was a television animated series - or more precisely, a meta-series of animated series - that all started with "Once upon a time ..." and explored different themes. One season was called "Once upon a time ... man" or "...space" or "...life" and so on.
Although I found them a bit childish, and often too simplified and idealistic, instructive, what you would call "good-humoured" today, I occasionally liked them, because they were not badly drawn for the circumstances of the time. Even though the style was often copied from Anime or Captain Future. Captain Future was very popular at that time. And with this method - besides not so bad storytelling - there was a lot of hammering about how stupid mankind is about environmental pollution and so on. Politics in a zeitgeist format for children.
Take a look at these 8 minutes from today's perspective.
Was that prophetic or just the proganda script for the politics of the next 35 years that has been going on ever since?
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