Disney's Power

"Children's comics are devised by adults, whose work is determined and justified by their idea of what a child is or should be" (125).

"Thus, adults create for a childhood embodying their own angelical aspirations, which offer consolation, hope and a guarantee themselves of a "better," but unchanging, future" (126)

Several quotes like these caught my attention throughout this piece.  Disney, and any other company catering to children, are created by adults.  The ideals they project are those projected by adults, the products the make are thought of by adults.  The messages sent, and those that adults deemed appropriate.  In today's society, in any society, even in the past, adults have held out to be morally superior to minors.  If this ideal is correct,  then their creations, both mentally and physically, should be deemed appropriate and acceptable.

Essentially, Disney is intending no harm upon those it reaches, which is nearly every soul on this or any other possible planet.  Its only dream is to create an idealized version of the past, and a picture perfect hope for the future.  They want us to see the good and the positive that have happened, and to dream of the amazing things that we can and will do.  Disney wants to inspire its youth and its old, and inspiration starts with positivity.

So what if Disney neglects the negative aspects, or decides to portray them through happier cartoon animals.  We would be nowhere if we dwelled on the past instead of focusing on how to change the future.  If we did not relay knowledge and important messages to children through manners of interest to them, perhaps animals, then what would we be doing for their own positive growth and more widely, for the growth of out world?  I think that Disney allows one more tool of communication between the adult and the juvenile world, and that alone is something incredibly positive.