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.

  • OldMole [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Imagine believing what the first tweet says, and thinking it is a good thing. Love to give control of our collective consciousness to a corporation.

    • Commander_Data [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I mean, the first tweet is true, though. The dissemination of information through myth and story has been part of human society for tens of thousands of years. The ability to communicate information through abstract thought is, as far as we know, something that is unique to human beings. Prior to language and story, organisms could only transmit information to successive generations through their DNA. That makes storytelling a pretty cool thing. Sacred is kind of a loaded term, but you can easily replace it with "vital" if you want to remove the spiritual overtones. Disney has taken a hegemonic position in Western cultural myth, that can't be disputed. This is obviously not a good thing if the liberal values being disseminated in Disney content are antithetical to your world view, but it doesn't change the fact that Disney has a dominant position in the transmission of Western cultural information and values.