The Scooby Doo Mindset

One of the cartoons that I watched most as a child was the Scooby-Doo mysteries in all its myriad versions and forms. With and without Scrappy Doo, as kids, the old version with crappy animation, the new version with good animation - all of it. It is surprising, of course, then how much of the context and subtlety you lose because of the inexperience and lack of knowledge as a kid. Like for example, the fact that the 'gang' is a bunch of hippies most likely with Fred, Velma and Daphne in a relationship while Shaggy acts as the drug-dealer. Each episode is them having a bad trip and seeing monsters and of course seeing Scooby talk. And at all times, high Shaggy has the munchies.
But the main lesson to be learnt from Scooby Doo has nothing to do with their alleged drug habits. It's more to do with their tenacity in trying to figure out the cause of the supernatural phenomena or the identity of the monster. They lay down elaborate traps despite their fear and catch the monster and have the audacity to peek under the mask. And the cause of the phenomena is always something so typically human - revenge, profit, power. This unrelenting pursuit of the truth by them and refusing to just believe the stories of the local and wanting to see under the mask under any and all circumstances is something that each of us would do well to inculcate in ourselves.