So what's the best way to keep human-monster contact minimal? Make that contact have consequences too scary to even contemplate - note no one really seems to know how kids are toxic or dangerous, just that they are and everyone imagines their own worst scenarios - stimulated fear of the unknown at its best. Since the CDA seems to know more about all the stuff than other monsters in the film, it is not inconceivable that they may also be aware of the true destructive potential of humans, and the kind of wrath they could visit on the monsters if they discovered that not only were they real, they'd been kidnapping and torturing human kids. We also see what happens when a unscrupulous businessman realizes kids aren't actually toxic - he feels no qualm in kidnapping to get that rare resource.
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The movie shows us that the monsters are not only kind of clueless when it comes to humans, despite the fact they've been in deliberate contact with that world for centuries at least, they are probably also technologically not nearly as advanced - the only way to generate energy they've been able to find in their civilization is from human kids! And then their entire economy seems based on getting that super-rare resource. CDA perpetuates the myth to maintain the separation between the human and the monster world And the myth perpetuated to the 'present' hysteria causing levels.Ģ. The monsters clearly have very limited understanding of humans - perhaps they 'discovered' that the 'common cause' in all those cases was that the Scarers touched kids or their things, and those flying Scarers who didn't touch anything got "poisoned" less, and came to the seemingly logical conclusion that it's children themselves that are toxic. Perhaps, at some point in history, probably when measles, mumps, poxes and scarlet fevers were a serious danger, some Scarers brought diseases back from across the door. Children really are toxic - when they're sick with human diseases. There does not seem to be any information about the start of this myth in any official sources that I've been able to find.ġ. Keeping the status quo was worth the injury caused to the human children, and the depiction of those children as toxic deathtraps was a way to keep monsters complacent about the fact that the children were being exploited for their gain. Their society needed energy, and the discovery of Scream allowed life as they knew it to continue. Instead it seemed like exceedingly grim practicality. kept monsters afraid of human children out of any sort of malice toward them. To be clear, I am not trying to imply that Monsters Inc.
The change to laughter as a source of power would engender a corresponding change in monster society's view of human children as well, it seems. Society would have a hard time basing its energy consumption on terrorizing Boo if it knew that she was an adorable little girl who was perfectly harmless. It's not stated in the movies, but that seems like a strong motivation to me. was able to exploit human children in a pretty horrible way for their own gain.
By keeping monsters afraid of humans, Monsters Inc.