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The last large spirit, is the Spirit of Innovation. Innovation is creativity, harnessed and channeled into something attainable. We don’t know how we will be able to make things possible, unless we dream and find the science to make our dreams come true. Our present and future need to bring those dreams into reality, instead of destroying and brewing in the waist of nihilism and cynicism. If we want a better tomorrow, we must recognize our own self-reliance and improve ourselves for our future. This Spirit will help us as a society, to give us the technology and creativity, to bring a positive to all of the other Spirits/Principles.

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Chapter 2: Spirit of Tomorrow

The Spirit of Tomorrow needs to be the third main value. For our future is tomorrow and only the children who inherit this world from us in the present, will be allowed to keep moving it forward to a better future. We are beings that do not live forever, which means that we need to hold our children’s safety and education as our top priority. It is the job of not only the parents, but of the community to live by an example so that the child will be able to learn and grow-up to be a well-rounded member of his/her society. It does take a village to raise a child and the first two Spirits will be a good foundation for their vision of the future.

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Chapter 2: Spirit of Self-Reliance

The Spirit of Self-Reliance is second in the lineup and is highly needed in order to be reliable, for the sake of having the power to help others. Self-Reliance relishes in the capability of finding ways to better ourselves, in order to help our neighbors. Working hard is never easy, but it allows us to be leaders and speak-up for what we believe to be right, but it also gives us the power to claim when we are wrong. Self-Reliance is a claim to our actions and what we do now does make a difference. If we are capable in working hard with our own will and vision for a better future, we can literally do anything and pave the way to anyone who wants to come with us.

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Chapter 2: Spirit of Heritage

The Spirit of Heritage is the first to be depicted in the lineup of principles that need to be carefully looked over. The depiction of a Native American Indian represents the foundation for the United States, but for all who come to America. We as a nation were created from misfits. People who did not belong in their country of origin, who had thoughts that were seen as heresy and were abused because of it. They came from those nations and founded a new government to be able to represent and give chances to anyone who wanted to better themselves. The only thing that was asked of these people were to bring the best of what their heritage had to offer and share it with the rest of the young nation. The Spirit of Heritage is what we learn from our past, the good, the bad, and the ugly; in order to see clearly of what our present is and to work for a better future.

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Chapter 2: Walt Disney’s Spirit

Walt Disney came from modest beginnings and built himself through his principles. He is the idealistic American Self-Starter. An American Titan who was able to build his empire from the ground-up. To understand the man and the thing that shares his name, you must understand the ideals and principles through which he viewed the world. There are a total of twelve Spirits that he deemed worthy of enshrining and I will cover them in this chapter.

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From Chapter: The Lion that Ate the Mouse. 

The names of these Spirits are Heritage, Self-Reliance, Tomorrow, Innovation, Independence, Freedom, Discovery, Compassion, Pioneering, Adventure, Knowledge, and Individualism. These are Disney’s founding principles and are the key to leading them towards a challenging road and a promising future.

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The Lion that Ate the Mouse

               I think, that if you are reading this, you too, love Disney. There is emotional baggage, creativity, politics, innovation, history, and nostalgia linked to the word, Disney. It is a source that we link our childhood to and it has changed us as a society in America. My own mother, who is 60 years old, has never lived in a world without Disney, and in the next 20 years, no one will know how the world was without it. This leads me to believe that we as a society have integrated a company into our American culture without thinking about what it will do to our future and how it would change us.

How did that happen?

We talk about Amazon taking over American businesses and getting too big as a company with goods that are too easily available with One-Day Shipping, but we don’t look at Disney with that same contempt and worry.

Why?

Is it because of love…but that is crazy. How did we as a society fall in love with Disney.

I decided to start this blog for a very selfish reason and it is to figure out how I fell in love with Disney, but by beginning with just two hours of research, I realized that in order to figure out why I love Disney so much, I need to point out why the world loves them too. In this blog, I am going to go over it all. Every short, every film, every piece of technology that Disney has ever made and I am going to discuss how it changed the world.

However, before we do this I think we need to explore why I decided to begin this excursion. From the previous parts of my one sided discussion, I stated that I love Disney. The way I came to this realization is that I was disappointed by them and it has been a spiral of bitterness since that day; when my last bit of naivety towards Disney was destroyed.

               I remember it clearly that when my husband had given me a ticket to see a movie at our local theater, since my husband worked there, I decided to go see the new CGI, The Lion King. However, I didn’t. I saw a music video from an Original Disney Channel movie called Zombies on YouTube and I just got sucked into watching that movie on my phone.

Why didn’t I want to see a theatrical release of a beloved classic?

               Because, it wasn’t the classic. It was a repetition of something that was in the past. There wasn’t anything new to it. The characters were the same. The music was pretty much the same. Shot for shot, it was practically the same. Yet, Disney was marketing the film as a re-do. They had a lot more Black American Actors and played it off like they were apologizing for the Song of the South and wanted to do something, “the right way.” That felt like it would be demeaning. Instead of creating a brand new film, with Black American Voice Actors, linked forever with brand new characters, like The Princess and the Frog; Disney slummed it and gave us nostalgia.

               I watched Zombies, fell in love with the story line and I liked the music, knowing fully that this film was a re-skinning of Disney Descendants. Again, nostalgia.

After my husband came back home with his friend, they told me how The Lion King was. “Just watch the original.” They told me.

Disney has poisoned nostalgia, because they stopped caring and holding their principles close to their heart as a business practice. Principles are things that are not allowed to be compromised and will be held over time; Disney no longer adheres to their principles. We see this now, in everything that they do.

Ø  Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Ø  Lady & The Tramp

Ø  Frozen 2

Ø  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Ø  Zombies 2

Ø  Artemis Fowl

Ø  Mulan

I have mentioned these Principles several times now and you are probably wondering what they are? These principles, in fact, are on display. Upon entry into the Disneyland Park, located in California, on the right side of Main Street, there is a little theater with the sign that says, “Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln.” Upon entering there is a one-one hundredth scale of Disney on opening day, a message from Walt Disney,

“To all that come to this happy place, welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... with hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.”

We will come back to this quote; and then further in there is a miniature capital building and entrance to the Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln Auditorium. Tucked away, to the side of the room, are the twelve Spirits of America. These spirits hidden away in the corner of the park are the values that Walt Disney believed that made America Great, in which Disney was founded upon and designed to embody.

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