I was so befuddled to find that Americans had bowdlerized the game to "Chutes & Ladders". That way you lose what's probably the most interesting part of the game (after all, it's not like there's interesting strategy).
Totally! I wonder why that was - is it to do with the sort of aversion to archetypal serpents that gets yoga condemned by some Christians as a way of awakening the Kuṇḍalinī devil?
At the most obvious level, it's just American overprotective parenting, not letting kids be exposed to things they might be afraid of. But as to why they were so worried about that specific fear, sure.
I was so befuddled to find that Americans had bowdlerized the game to "Chutes & Ladders". That way you lose what's probably the most interesting part of the game (after all, it's not like there's interesting strategy).
Totally! I wonder why that was - is it to do with the sort of aversion to archetypal serpents that gets yoga condemned by some Christians as a way of awakening the Kuṇḍalinī devil?
At the most obvious level, it's just American overprotective parenting, not letting kids be exposed to things they might be afraid of. But as to why they were so worried about that specific fear, sure.