by Rogue Dash J.R.R. Tolkien famously hated Walt Disney’s fairy tales. It wasn’t just that Disney changed the particulars of the tale, or dumbed it down for children. Disney also changed the spirit of those old tales. Disney was telling his fairy tales to Americans, and Americans are a relentlessly optimistic people. Colonists and pioneers,…
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Collapsing Quality
By RogueDash1 Some three decades ago, I did a service project with the Boy Scouts at Disney’s Give Kids the World, their resort for kids with terminal illnesses whose literal dying wish was to visit Disney World. We were there to help with unskilled maintenance, and I got assigned to trimming the shrubs. The landscaper…