@jonharris1989 Totally agree with your post in principle. This has been a concern I've had for a while. But (and I cannot believe my first debate with you is going to be over Maleficent. 😂) But in the Maleficent movies, they make it clear that she was misrepresented. The redemptive arc is

@alisa_childers Ok, well keep Maleficent.

@jonharris1989 Ok ok ok but back off Tangled 😅

@SummrWrites Everyone seems to have their one exception lol

@jonharris1989 2020 happened. We were grossly lied to and harmed. Our children were harmed. We do not care if we are called “conspiracy theorist” any longer. We were called that in 2020 and we were right. The trust of those in power doesn’t exist. I only trust in my savior.

@jonharris1989 And Robin Hood didn’t steal from the rich. He stole from the corrupt government officials who were stealing from everyone

@jonharris1989 Whoa that really took a hard left turn there at the end lol they're just cartoons man.

@jonharris1989 I'm explicitly telling my children that inversion is wrong.

@jonharris1989 You may have a point about children's programing but most icons of youth culture have been antiheroes, at least since Holden Caulfield and Jim Stark, if not since Emma Bovary and Young Werther.

@jonharris1989 Am I out of touch? No it's revivalists from the greatest generation who are wrong. 🤔

@jonharris1989 all those movies made badguys into goodguys. typical democrat ploy.

@jonharris1989 I would gently push back on this, but don't entirely disagree. There is a time to question authority and tradition, but not because authority and tradition are inherently wrong. Take for instance, questioning your childhood pastor because you begin to see holes in 3rd-way-ism 1/2

@jonharris1989 Remoralization is the answer to demoralization

@jonharris1989 That’s a good observation. I think conspiracy culture has always been present and in my experience, the older generations are sometimes the worse about them. But you do have a point. These movies subverted our minds with liberalism at best. Rebellion at worst.

@jonharris1989 They were taught evil is good and good is evil and to toss out tradition and make feelings the center of every decision.

@jonharris1989 Shrek is an anti-Disney gem.

@jonharris1989 So Candace Owen’s watched a lot of Shrek growing up? Personally I think the problem lies far deeper

@jonharris1989 I think those kids don't even have an archetype to invert

@jonharris1989 Nah. I don’t think anyone cares that much about them to be honest. It’s more likely that the constant lying and failures from the governing class made us not trust things. That and teachers indoctrinating rather than teaching critical thinking.

@jonharris1989 That’s about the same time stadium rock, with the charismatic handsome frontman who sang upbeat songs about being awesome, was swapped out for either ugly nihilism or gay boy bands.

@jonharris1989 You guys were thinking that deeply about movies when growing up? When I watched Shrek as a kid I just thought the donkey was funny and the music was good.

@jonharris1989 I don't think Shrek and tangled fit into this. There are better examples of movies trying to portray the bad guy as being misunderstood without a redemption arc

@jonharris1989 It is more than that. Every movie is also about a male figure having fear about the outside world, but the fear is actually irrational and all threats are actually nice. Finding Nemo. The Croods.

@jonharris1989 Jon starting to talk like @ReviewsPossum XD

@jonharris1989 I’ll disagree on Tangled, but I’ve been ringing the bell that Shrek is subversive propaganda since it first came out. None of my elementary school friends would talk to me after I said I said I wanted Farquaad to destroy the nasty swamp with all the monsters.

@jonharris1989 It took me until my 40s to realize my first instincts about people are almost always right.

@jonharris1989 Are you saying reporters aren't creeps? 😂

@jonharris1989 Don’t forget the music/book “Wicked.”

@jonharris1989 I grew up watching little blue men with only one chick thrown in, and I turned out okay... I think. #Smurfs

@jonharris1989 My entire political identity is based around Shrekism and Ogrenomics

@jonharris1989 I just started the Literary Life’s podcast on Dracula discussing this very topic. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/...

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@jonharris1989 I understand what you're saying, but how do you think parents should raise their children instead? To blindly believe the official narrative of things?

@jonharris1989 Yeah, it’s Shrek’s fault young conservatives are Nazis, definitely not that there was an entire political movement built around anger over video games not being a safe space for white boys to shout the N Word and make rape threats.