One thing that you can be sure of when getting a Pluto is that you will be getting a dog with a lot of personalities. For example, some may have the short coat of a Labrador Retriever, while others may have the longer coat of a Golden Retriever. However, because there can be so much variation in what goes into Pluto, it is hard to say what they will all have in common. The most common ones that are found in Pluto are the Labrador Retriever, the Golden Retriever, and the American Staffordshire Terrier. Rather, it is a mix of several different breeds. What’s the difference between Goofy and Pluto?Īs we mentioned before, Pluto is not its own dog breed.Whether you are a Pluto or a Goofy, it’s important to remember that, at the end of the day, we are all just dogs. I bet viewed through this lense things look quite different indeed. Instead compare yourself to where you were three years ago. Don’t compare yourself to someone else whose life you don’t really know anything about. If you find yourself falling into this trap, it’s important to remember that comparison is the death of joy. I compare my achievements to what others achieve without even knowing 1% of the picture of their lives. We live inside prisons of our own creation. We perceive that others have power over us and in doing so give them power over us. Our faults, our struggles, our challenges, and our failures.īut that is only because we are stacking the deck against ourselves. We extrapolate that 5% and then we compare this unrealistic perspective to our own life. We get these tiny windows into the top 5% of someone’s life. This is a serious issue in the age of Instagram. We build others and their accomplishments up in our head while simultaneously minimizing our own. I don’t know about you but this is something that happens to me, if I had to guess, only about all the time. How often do we attribute false significance and importance to someone else while belittling ourselves? Now, what if we turned the metaphor around a bit? You can look at people like people instead of Pluto. You keep your identity small, and all the sudden you don’t have a bone in many of the fights you see play across the news and social media. People hold too many things as part of their identity in this day and age, and because of that there are infinitely many ideological hills they are willing to die on. He argues, and I agree, that issues are divisive, not because answers are opaque, but because people attribute parts of their personal identity to one side or the other of the debate. The solution to being a Goofy is to keep your identity small. If there is one overlying theme of human history, you would struggle to find one more prevalent than the story of two peoples who seem to the outside to be almost identical fighting over nuanced ideological differences. We view ourselves as superior to someone else who is not nearly so different as we tell ourselves (except for Tottenham fans, they really do have some pretty big character red flags). Anyone on our side of the aisle is superior to anyone on the other side. We build out our identity along cultural, political, ideological, and even sports team lines. We all at some point have looked down on someone else as somehow less than. The most straightforward interpretation is that we all, at one point or another, find ourselves in the role of Goofy. I think the characterizations of Pluto and Goofy especially give us a great metaphor to explore. You start to see where I am coming from when I said it was all a bit weird. Is he a dog? Is he a human? What’s the difference between Goofy and Pluto? But he is an anthropomorphic character who wears clothes, talks, and walks upright like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. This relationship is especially weird in light of Goofy. Mickey and all of his friends are anthropomorphic cartoon characters that walk and talk and think like humans. Pluto is Mickey Mouse’s pet dog first introduced in the 1930s. You know which cartoon character I have always thought was a little weird? Pluto.
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