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.
I want to see what happens when societal collapse hits Disney Adults. Will they retreat into full delusion like a Fallout faction? Will they stop being the world’s youngest 38 year-old? Will they even notice until the cartoons stop flowing?
I would say rather that Disney has HIJACKED the role of fairy tales in our culture.
Walt Disney made millions off of appropriating public domain works. How many people even today think that Cinderella and the Seven Dwarves and Sleeping Beauty are copyrighted works?
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.”
Leave it to the market to tell children fairy tales, because you are at work at your 2nd job, citizen.
Honestly makes me relate to the primitivist take that everyone used to participate in creating, sustaining and replicating of music, art and culture. Now those things are outsourced to a handful of professionals, while the wast majority have been downgraded to passive consumers.
That collective approach used to live on in folk art to some degree, and remnants of it are still found in subcultures heavy on the DIY aspect. After the mid 20th century move towards superstar cults, high “production values” and a complete commercialization and commodification of cultural production, i’d argue there’s been a strong countermovement in scenes like punk, hip hop and techno, in online communities centered around user-created content (memes, fanfiction, video essays etc.), in indie game development and so on. When i look at music production in particular, making and distributing your own recordings has never been easier and more egalitarian. We could easily live in the most creative society of all times if we’d get rid of media corporations and IP laws.
I feel like there’s a deeper problem here than corporations and IP law. A century ago my horrible screeching over a guitar might have been the best music people around me were going to get without a hussle of traveling to a music hall or something. Nowadays all of the world’s best music is a button press away. Same with the other forms of art.
That’s one of the things I like about ttrpgs. My friends can easily play much better games than stupid prototypes that I concoct in Unity, they can read better books than my half-baked short hard sci-fi stories. Sure, they might partake out of politeness and I don’t judge, I’ve been on the other end. But when I’m GMing they have no better choice than to deal with all the stupid shit that I’ve came up with or at least until they’ve made AI GMs.
Why do I feel this is a lead up to a Mad Max style cult with a crucified Walt Disney bearing the sins of humanity alongside the Holy Ghost of Mickey Mouse or some other such insane shit?
Americans have no culture
We are the nothing, mindlessly spreading and destroying all
