If you are interest in Walt Disney and/or the empire he built, then this is an excellent article for you to read. Bill McKibben reviews Neal Gabler’s book, “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination” in his article “The Cheerful Solipsist” in Books & Culture, March/April 2007, pages 38-39.
“Even more than Coke and McDonalds—and perhaps even more than the church—Disney was the great brand artist of his era, carving out a niche in most American brains and hearts. As the consumer society grew more secular, he supplied an easy and alternate creed, complete with icons, pilgrimage sites, and spiritual comforts. In the hymnal of the American religion, most of the happy, whistling tunes were his. He bears pondering.”
He died, in Gabler's words, “quite possibly the most famous man in America" but also "among the loneliest.” With neither the consolations of religion or close friendship, he bowed out ten days past his 65th birthday, so terrified of death that he hadn't even left instructions for his burial.
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