I don’t have a link and can’t be bothered to look it up.
Also somebody called it a “woke Jordan Peterson lecture” which made me wonder whether somebody is doing the whole jungian “helping young people to self-actualize” grift but without the reactionary baggage. Won’t be surprised there’s demand for that.
This. Fairy tales do hold a sacred role in culture, and, like religion, that role prevents capitalism from alienating away every aspect of the human condition and using it as a money pump. So capitalism must degrade and assimilate them.
That said even Disney’s bowdlerised versions were great in their own way, but things went sharply downhill after Ashman died and the more modern scripts stopped having overt LGBT coding.
Even in the BatB->Aladdin->Lion king trilogy you can see capitalism realising it can commercialise the living shit out of this thing and ramping up the money pumps more and more (something that Robin Williams discovered and why you won’t find the genie’s songs on the animated album these days.)
That said even Disney’s bowdlerised versions were great in their own way
Anyone ever actually read Grimm’s Fairy Tales? Shit is dark. Children die all the time. There is a whole section of stories that teach the lesson “beware of Jews, they are bad news.”
