The day that the People’s Republic of China has a film factory capable of captivating – and eating the jar – all the infants and cherubs of the world and making them believe that a hungry bear will never devour them given their intrinsic goodness, that day Beijing will be able to proclaim itself the first world power (the GDP thing is not enough).
The Walt Disney company turned 100 years old yesterday, although it was not until 1937 that they released their first cinematic hit, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, whose plot has its crumb and its interpretations, each more perverse, incorrect and unhealthy. But while the boys and girls who enjoyed Snow White have not made polyamory their lifestyle, the ravages of Disney’s animalistic adventures have created one of the most canine ideologies of the 21st century: animalism.
I do not conceive the equation of animals with the rank of people – soon enshrined in many constitutions – without a corpus as powerful as Walt Disney’s animated films, where it is difficult to find a bad bug and 99% of the animals are sociable, expressive and affectionate If I were a woman, I would be clear about the obligation to choose between an Iberian husband or the orangutans from The Jungle Book…
I don’t know if Walt Disney was as fond of animals as he seems – something tells me that our Rodríguez de la Fuente gave him soups with a sling. Did he imagine that his films would be the pillar of an urban, good-natured and transversal ideology, omnipresent in first world cities whose streets are already beginning to adapt to the walks and needs of dogs?
Walt Disney helped the United States win the Cold War and the children of the world to cry and cry before their time – he was a bit of a spoilsport with premature orphans or Dumbo’s mother tied up in chains – but, over time, I am of those who would review Walt Disney’s contribution to Judeo-Christian civilization. It no longer seems so positive or so innocent to me. (And I have not yet digested Ferdinando, the story of a fighting bull with calf horns, the character of a dairy cow and gentle with solemnity).