Last time, we covered how American parents have been trained like lab rats to assume that animation is a juvenile art form. That misperception isn't just a harmless error; it’s cultural deformity. No serious civilization treats its mythic traditions as disposable commodities. But Disney conditioned Americans to do just that, and the results have been catastrophic.

Most people think of Walt Disney as a harmless showman; a P.T. Barnum of cartoons with a castle instead of a circus tent. In reality, he was more like a cultural conquistador. Uncle Walt didn't just make movies, he replaced longstanding stories.

You can see the bait and switch in real time. Ask a child—or an adult, for that matter—to describe the main plot and themes of The Little Mermaid. You won’t hear a word about Hans Christian Andersen’s deep Christian allegory or its tragic ending. You’ll get a pitch for Disney’s 1989 cartoon musical, complete with talking crabs and a happy ending. And you’ll see an iconic tale’s total replacement with a corporate artifact. Nor was that usurpation an accident. It was Disney’s business model.

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In other words, he turned myth into self-help gruel. This cultural strip mining has had consequences. When you hollow out your folklore, you gut your civilizational immune system. Because stories are how a people pass on their values; how they teach the next generation to endure, strive, and build. So if your mythology is reduced to stuffed animals parroting ad pitches, you get a society incapable of defending itself. That, by the way, is why supposed culture warriors browbeating you with the hackneyed line that fiction is worthless while insisting that art isn’t real aren’t just wrong; they’re fifth columnists.

It wasn’t always this way. In a Christian culture, children were initiated into the moral order through tales that acknowledged suffering, death, and divine justice.