More research

I finished reading that book I posted about earlier, Film and the American Moral Vision of Nature. I found some really interesting and inspiring information in that book. Here are some good quotes about the questionable ethics behind disney films.

"They allow us to understand how disney's natural history films distance people from nature rather than bring them close in spite of a cinematic illusion of intimacy; we can see his reductionist, patronizing attitudes toward nature and toward human institutions ranging from industry to family; we can see how he used nature as a shill to eulogize American social values."

Disney films serve as an ego-system not an eco-system. They make nature reflect american values, making an american audience believe their values came from nature.

 "The animals in disney's landscape held those same values of loyalty, industry, fidelity, and thrift dear. It was the american way."

"An attitude towards nature that is to preserve rather than protect, which encourages a static image of a balance of nature that must be maintained, and to construct nature ideologically as a useful product for human beings."

I don't want my disney character to know he's bad though. I want him to think he's doing nature a favor. But not in a patronizing way, in a real way, he's just mistaken.