While Bettelheim tells us that fairy tales help us adjust, Jack Zipes has said the opposite: that the value of fairy tales is that they teach us not to adjust, because the oppressive society in which we live is something we should refuse to adjust to.

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But if that's the case then those for whom it should be toughest should be the tax crooks living in our midst who refuse to pay their share for the society we all live in.

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