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they normalize the idea of work as the essential fact of all life, supposedly what every entity on earth does all the time.
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In Disney films — imbued with the old Uncle Walt’s punitive Protestant work ethic that made him such a bitter enemy of labor unions and his own suffering workforce — not working obsessively hard is regarded as morally dangerous.
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A straight line can be drawn from the siren song “Bare Necessities” in Disney’s The Jungle Book (1967) to “Hakuna Matata” in The Lion King (1994). In both cases, the young male protagonist is temporarily swayed by likable but lazy sidekicks who want them to ignore their responsibilities, which involve huge, generally life-endangering, effort.