I think that a lot of times Mr. Peanutbutter is absolutely speaking directly to the audience and saying basic, human truths that we need to hear.
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
In a world where there are no longer books we have almost all of us read, the movies we have almost all of us seen are perhaps the richest cultural bond we have. They go on haunting us for years the way our dreams go on haunting us. In a way they are our dreams. The best of them remind us of human truths that would not seem as true without them. They help to remind us that we are all of us humans together.
To be honest, while every market is very different, we are all still fundamentally moved and inspired by similar human truths - love, fear, belonging, desire, and so on.
There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.
The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.
