“Gen X didn’t reason their way to institutional distrust. They were conditioned into it before they had words for it.”
I never saw any of those movies, largely because none of them seemed interesting to me. I did notice the quotidian falsity and incompetence of institutions and reasoned my way to low expectations.
The author’s timeframes don’t match the generations particularly well. 1959 catches the later boomers like me. And I will note that boomers were the original anti-authority generation: anti-war rallies, “turn on, tune in, drop out”, etc.
The live action Disney movies are … obscure at best, so it’s much more likely that they were reflecting the general anti-institutional trend of the period rather than creating it. That said, it is significant that movies made for children in that period so consistently made institutions as such the villains. If Disney was doing it, surely everyone else was.
“Gen X didn’t reason their way to institutional distrust. They were conditioned into it before they had words for it.”
I never saw any of those movies, largely because none of them seemed interesting to me. I did notice the quotidian falsity and incompetence of institutions and reasoned my way to low expectations.
The author’s timeframes don’t match the generations particularly well. 1959 catches the later boomers like me. And I will note that boomers were the original anti-authority generation: anti-war rallies, “turn on, tune in, drop out”, etc.
The live action Disney movies are … obscure at best, so it’s much more likely that they were reflecting the general anti-institutional trend of the period rather than creating it. That said, it is significant that movies made for children in that period so consistently made institutions as such the villains. If Disney was doing it, surely everyone else was.