Gumby Land Thinking

When you think of Gumby, you can mierly see a character from your childhood. A character that made you feel rather happy as a child because he is a familiar green clay figure. But Gumby was deeper than just a character. The creator of Gumby, Art Clokey once said that when he went to India on a spiritual journey, the famous Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba magically produced some sacred ash and spread it over Gumby, declaring that “Gumby was the incarnation of spiritual love.”And after this happened the sales of Gumby toys went up incredibly fast. Art Clokey was so into Sathya Sai Baba’s declaration, and he believed that Gumby was a divine icon and able to provide blissful feelings. And we all see these feelings as real because they have not been proven otherwise. Gumby Land Thinking in other words is basically like having a high hope for something and there is nothing to ever make whatever is in question wrong or false so we still hold it with high hopes, as true.

There are a few examples I would like to talk about, one being the String Theory.The theory says that the subatomic particles found in nature may not be particles at all but instead tiny vibrating strings And as much as we believed the string theory it lacked experiments to tell us if it was true. Another example would be the one regarding Bertrand Russell. He said that there was a small china teapot revolving about the sun in an orbit of some sort. But, the teapot was too small to be revealed by any telescopes. So there was no evidence that it was true or false so it is considered Gumby Landing.