Disney Liberation

Walt Disney said that laughter is the best American export, and I think it is because, Joy springs from liberation; rationality from rules;

 Joy is limitless, rationality is exactness;

Joy believes, 

rationality wants to prove,

Joy overflows,

while rationality dries. 

Joy is oneness;

 rationality is relativizing. 

Joy gives thanks; rationality fends for survival. 

Joy springs from excellence; rationality from debt. 

Joy is faith; rationality just control. 

Joy is license from God; rationality is the tree of knowledge. 

While rationality bites, joy is absolution.

Disney Absolution

To be optimist is to surrender, rather than ambitiously predict; it is to render to God what is really God's; the future; it is the humbleness, it is the courage of welcoming life, rather than the pretentious to be a smart ass about it; it is, ultimately, owning up entirely to oneself, to the moment, to "what is in front of you" (as Arthur Rubinstein referred to live)

To be a "behavioral optimist",
like Walt Disney was, is to be absolved.

Disneyssence

Disney Joy

Joy is innocence; rationality is skeptical. Joy is limitless, rationality is exactness. Joy is faith, rationality is proving. Joy overflows,while rationality dries. Joy is oneness; rationality is relativizing. Joy gives thanks; rationality fends for survival. Joy springs from excellence; rationality from debt. Joy is faith; rationality just control. Joy is license from God; rationality is the tree of knowledge. While rationality bites, joy is absolution.


     Walt Disney was a fighter from joy, of joy and for joy

(Disneyssence)

Disney "License to Touch"

It has been smartly remarked that in the early Mickey cartoons there was a passionate investigation of the body (tweaking ears, kicking butts etc) and that Mickey thus gave the viewer "the license to touch". Physicality is indeed a fundamental dimension of Disney animation, most characters of which, in their cuteness, or endearingness, arouse not just affection, but the wish to cuddle with them. Frank and Ollie remark on how essential it was that Walt had been a primitive farm boy. In fact, it was Walt's beautiful primitivism, his identifying so directly with nature, the main factor underlying this amazing, affectionate, humorist and thoroughly adorable physicality.