The Tragic Kingdom
One of my fondest memories of childhood in the 1950s was being allowed by our parents to eat dinner in the living room while watching Walt Disney on Sunday night. Among the most memorable was the Davy Crockett series starring Fess Parker.
I had a Davy Crockett rifle, pistol, jacket, and of course, the coonskin hat.
My sister was in the Fess Parker fan club and she wore a locket with his picture.
Davy Crockett, both in film and in actuality, was a hero. A frontiersman and advocate for liberty when he was in Congress.
He was also a fierce opponent of Andrew Jackson and was opposed to the forced resettlement of Indians, even though he had personally fought against them. He went to Texas later and died at the Alamo.
Little boys had heroes then and were taught good life lessons.
As a company, you had the sense that Walt Disney knew the precious cargo that he carried, and both appreciated and respected the difficult task parents face in raising good children during a formative period when impressions are a powerful influence on development. Wholesome entertainment was the company’s currency.
You felt that if you turned your child over to Disney for an hour or so, they were in decent and caring hands. You trusted them with your most precious thing, your children.
My daughters viewed constantly The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King. It was another generation to be entertained by the Disney company. Sitting next to them at home or in the theatre, even I enjoyed the show.
Later as adults, they enjoyed The Lion King on stage while visiting London.
We took the kids to Disneyland and had a grand time. Despite the heavy expense, and the long lines so cleverly hidden, it was a wonderful family experience. My daughters ran around collecting the signatures of every Disney character they could locate. The young people hidden inside their character costumes were unfailingly polite and kind to my children.
It now appears that the Magic Kingdom has now become a tragic kingdom. Whatever Disney products my grandchildren will see will have to be vintage productions or not at all.
The corporation has betrayed our trust by its open advocacy for gender-bending extremism. How dare they use our children as their personal sexual grooming pool!
It is sort of like catching a beloved relative or friend being sexually inappropriate with your children. Whether heterosexual or homosexual, it does not matter. Whatever their problem might be, and even compassion you might have for their issues, you would never leave them alone with your children again. It is simply inappropriate to get sexual with young children.
It is tragic that our grandchildren will never know the joy of Disney that we did as kids and as we did as parents.
It is tragic that this great exporter of American culture now will export sexual confusion as the supposed American way of life. Yes, it is silly, but many foreigners get their impression of American culture from our movies. What people in foreign countries must think of us? They will think those of us in America have gone mad.
Innocence is gone. Like so many in the public schools, Disney takes it upon itself to teach our little children about sexual matters from their point of view.
It is tragic for this corporation and its employees. The last few days have done more reputational damage to this company than just about anything witnessed in the past century. Just from a commercial point of view, don’t they understand that the vast majority of their viewers are heterosexual? Moreover, we just don’t want Disney teaching our kids about sex via secret messages. Secret or overt, teaching about sex is not their job, that is our job, as parents.
If you have had a chance to see the videos of high-ranking Disney officials and employees chatting up their plans to spread the LGPTQ gospel, it is unmistakable that they have an agenda and view your children as their special audience. You however have been cleverly left out of the loop.
It was also clear from listening to their discussions, they actually are quite insecure with themselves, and seek comfort in recruiting greater numbers to their ranks. They will not feel quite so isolated if they can recruit your kids to their cause.
Our kids are not recruits in their new army.
How can Disney ever restore our confidence that they will not be using our children as cannon fodder in their take on the great cultural and values war? We know what side they are on now, as it is out in the open.
As tragic as it is, it is helpful to know now, what their intentions are. The pretense has been dropped. Disney now sees its function to brainwash your kids and grandchildren from one very narrow, and disturbed, point of view.
It is unlikely that in the current state of Hollywood morality, they could possibly root out the sexually confused in their ranks. Their employees and the entertainment industry would rebel against them and lawsuits would bankrupt them. Disney is caught between its most vocal sexual advocates, its other employees who must be embarrassed by these videos, and parents who feel betrayed. Any attempts they might make will not convince us. They have lost our trust.
It is still a free country so they can hire whom they wish and espouse whatever they believe are their corporate “values.” We don’t want to banish them. We won’t join the cancel culture. They can become the entertainment arm of the LGBTQ movement and sell their wares to their advocates. It will prove to be a small market niche, but hey, they made their choices didn’t they? And we can make our choices as well.
It is just that we do not want this corporation and its “values” anywhere close to our children ever again. We will vote with our pocketbooks. And unlike a relative who might have abused your trust, we are not related to Disney. We are not dealing with a disturbed loved one, rather we are dealing with a disturbing movement that has taken over a giant impersonal corporation that loves doing business with Communist China. Incidentally, we doubt the Chinese leadership is actually happy with these corporate messages either.
We will move on and seek entertainment from a company that does not step outside of its function of entertainment and seeks instead to secretly brainwash your kids.
Our affection for the past cannot blind us to the reality of the present.
The Magic Kingdom is now the Tragic Kingdom, and it is never coming back.
