The Disney Way Of Life

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“The happiest place on earth.” This phrase has been used to describe the

Disney theme parks all over the world: Orlando, Florida; Anaheim, California; Paris,

France; and Tokyo, Japan. Happy music plays, happy characters greet you, and happy

workers clean up happy trash. For decades, children have been ecstatic to ride the

teacups, have breakfast with the characters, and meet the famous mouse that started the

entire Disney industry. Since the beginning, Disney has grown to gargantuan proportions

with its numerous outlet stores, movies, and merchandise as well as its connections with

other big companies such as AT&T and many television and movie industries. Disney

has, in a sense, taken the real world by storm with the joyful world it has created. “The

Wonderful World of Disney” is nothing more than a failed attempt to make the world a

pretty, blissful place. Even worse is its attempt to create a carefree, secure, jolly city

where the residents would have nothing at all to worry about. This has proven that

Disney is on the long list of failed utopias.

“Utopia” is defined as “the word for a perfect or ideal place- especially

one with an ideal social or political system”(The Learning Kingdom). Many authors

have tried to convey the idea of a perfect world through their writings. The term comes

from Sir Thomas More’s 1516 book Utopia in which he described an ideal place that

didn’t exist. He derived the word from the Greek roots ou (not) and topos (place), so



“utopia” literally means “no place.” More knew this place could not exist, and named it

appropriately. All throughout history, people have tried to create ideal ways of life.

“Whereas once the inclination to imagine alternative socie...