Disservice
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Disney did a disservice to the world when he created his antiseptic magic kingdom; it doesn't provide a place for dreams, it provides a place for dreams to be dry-cleaned.
The idea of the squeaky-clean Disney universe gives me the same feeling I get when I'm listening to muzak in my dentist's office; deadened.
While some might argue for the escapism, a place where one can get away from the world, that ideal goes only so far - especially when that escapism doesn't provide a respite, but only a laundered lie. Disney's universe provides all the dreams, all the thinking, all the tools for you, there is no room to breath, grow, or play. And the provided thinking perverts classic fairytales that never did anyone any harm, and hides the truth of an authoritarian leader whose idea of animation and company unity was "my way, or the highway" - allowing for no individuality at all. He ran his company in much the same way his world works.
Play doesn't always need to be fat, jolly, and cute; it can - and does - safely include the angular, the edgey, the sarcastic, and the bold.