Disney and Motherhood

To be a mother is to be able to not infringe the most difficult contract, the one mothers have signed, knowing or not, with divinity: To know up to what point a child is theirs, and up to what point it is God's alone. As for the sweetness, roundness and the cuteness which express maternal love, no one better than Walt Disney to know and show it! Being a real, traditional and even a conservative man, did not get in the way of Walt's having this wonderful feminine side, which, if not repressed, is the one to make a real man complete! Thank you Walt Disney, for also helping all mothers in teaching and ingraining the real ethical values in their children

Walt Disney

     It all started with a man, but this man was so humble, so capable of being at one with everything he created, had such a immense heart, and was so grateful, that he declared that " it all started with a mouse...." Disneyssence

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. 

Disney Entertainment

     The essence of Disney entertainment is ultimateness. More than an amusement park, the Magic Kingdom is a pilgrimage like place, as long as it is able to grant, in its role-assigning power, the facing of ultimateness, the right to believe on purpose, either with or without the help of sensory illusion. Such right coincides, of course, with the ability to receive Walt Disney's most generous gift: the gift of givingness. For, to face ultimateness in what you see, is to give it final validity, to turn it into a law.
    When you see Alice in the parks, for instance, she isn't just a fiction, a "fooling", but the command to be seen as the definitive Alice, the command, that is, to give her ultimate validity.

Charismatic Disney

     Leadership is motivating, whereas authority is brainwashing. Leadership serves a cause, authority serves the self. Leadership is altruistic, authority is egoistic; leadership springs from courage, authority from repressed fear. Leadership is self-overcoming; but authority is just self-assertion. Leadership is usurping; authority is stifling. Leadership comes from charisma, authority from imposing, and,while authority is repressive, leadership is inspiring. Authority wants to control, Leadership to excel. Authority is limitation, leadership is mystical. 

Natives and Disney

     Why do I love Walt Disney and the Natives? The reasons in common, may be these: they love nature; in their primitivism, they do reach the religious essence; they honor another reality, they see the whole creation permeated with equal life, they identify with animals, they open doors to wonderful worlds.... What else? Disney was reported to not want to make a garden in one of his houses, in order to let nature wild, which he preferred. One more thing: they look at artifice with delight and poetry... Have you seen an Indian at the computer? It's beautiful, he kinds of communes with it, as if diving in the screen, and handles it with respect and familiarity... Like Walt handled technology as well.....

Transcendent Disney

     Through Mickey, Disney expresses full awareness of his own attuning to transcendence, and, in finding a common essence between what lays hidden in every human being and Mickey himself, Disney also gives a beautiful description of innocence. In the article "The Cartoon's contribution to Children", he says of Mickey:
"... we see to it that nothing ever happens that will cure his faith in the transcendent destiny of one Mickey Mouse" and further: " ... the Mickey audience is made up of parts of people, of that deathless, precious, ageless, absolutely primitive remnant of something in every world wracked human being which makes us play with children's toys and laugh without self-consciousness at silly things, sing in bathtubs and dream and believe that our babies are uniquely beautiful. You know... the Mickey in us".