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> Like lemmings off a cliff. I just want to mention that actual lemmings are not doing this. This was faked by Disney employees throwing lemmings out off a cli

> Like lemmings off a cliff. I just want to mention that actual lemmings are not doing this. This was faked by Disney employees throwing lemmings out off a cliff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#Misconceptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#Misconceptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)#Controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)#Contro...

recuter 4y ago
Meanwhile, actual lemmings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z2-vPg1_nw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z2-vPg1_nw
- gpderetta 4y ago
  What an absolute masterpiece!
Lio 4y ago
I once went to a very posh Disney themed fancy dress party dressed as a lemming. When explained why the host’s family were not amused. :P Never. Trust. Disney.
- phist_mcgee 4y ago
  As an aside, it makes me very uneasy to see grown adults be so infatuated with Disney IPs. The quote from Alec Guinness about Star Wars in his autobiography: “A refurbished Star Wars is on somewhere or everywhere. I have no intention of revisiting any galaxy. I shrivel inside each time it is mentioned. Twenty years ago, when the film was first shown, it had a freshness, also a sense of moral good and fun. Then I began to be uneasy at the influence it might be having. The first bad penny dropped in San Francisco when a sweet-faced boy of twelve told me proudly that he had seen Star Wars over a hundred times. His elegant mother nodded with approval. Looking into the boy's eyes I thought I detected little star-shells of madness beginning to form and I guessed that one day they would explode. 'I would love you to do something for me,' I said. 'Anything! Anything!' the boy said rapturously. 'You won't like what I'm going to ask you to do,' I said. 'Anything, sir, anything!' 'Well,' I said, 'do you think you could promise never to see Star Wars again?' He burst into tears. His mother drew herself up to an immense height. 'What a dreadful thing to say to a child!' she barked, and dragged the poor kid away. Maybe she was right but I just hope the lad, now in his thirties, is not living in a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities.” I think about that a lot when seeing the lengths many adults go to immersing themselves into these "cinematic universes" `
  - BrotherBisquick 4y ago
    Based. I'm surprised he hasn't been cancelled for "not letting people enjoy things."
    - jessaustin 4y ago
      It's less surprising than one might think, given that he passed away 22 years ago.
  - eternalban 4y ago
    > "living in a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities.” The trend of comics cum cinema, and wizards lording it over muggles, which has been incessant for at least 20 years now, has been so consistent that it begs the question of why. The basic underlying theme of all these 'cultural' products has been to instill the idea that 'little normal people' are powerless victims, and only magical special people with superpowers not available to the common man gets to save the day. This has the been the programming for the past 20+ years. I hinted at this a few days ago in a comment regarding the strange case of "cults of personality" and "savior hero politicians" in the West.
gpderetta 4y ago
While the real lemming do not jump off a click, famously the characters of the eponymous games will indeed happily fall of the cliff if not stopped. So the meme lives on.

recuter 4y ago

Meanwhile, actual lemmings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z2-vPg1_nw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z2-vPg1_nw

gpderetta 4y ago
What an absolute masterpiece!

Lio 4y ago

I once went to a very posh Disney themed fancy dress party dressed as a lemming. When explained why the host’s family were not amused. :P Never. Trust. Disney.

phist_mcgee 4y ago
As an aside, it makes me very uneasy to see grown adults be so infatuated with Disney IPs. The quote from Alec Guinness about Star Wars in his autobiography: “A refurbished Star Wars is on somewhere or everywhere. I have no intention of revisiting any galaxy. I shrivel inside each time it is mentioned. Twenty years ago, when the film was first shown, it had a freshness, also a sense of moral good and fun. Then I began to be uneasy at the influence it might be having. The first bad penny dropped in San Francisco when a sweet-faced boy of twelve told me proudly that he had seen Star Wars over a hundred times. His elegant mother nodded with approval. Looking into the boy's eyes I thought I detected little star-shells of madness beginning to form and I guessed that one day they would explode. 'I would love you to do something for me,' I said. 'Anything! Anything!' the boy said rapturously. 'You won't like what I'm going to ask you to do,' I said. 'Anything, sir, anything!' 'Well,' I said, 'do you think you could promise never to see Star Wars again?' He burst into tears. His mother drew herself up to an immense height. 'What a dreadful thing to say to a child!' she barked, and dragged the poor kid away. Maybe she was right but I just hope the lad, now in his thirties, is not living in a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities.” I think about that a lot when seeing the lengths many adults go to immersing themselves into these "cinematic universes" `
- BrotherBisquick 4y ago
  Based. I'm surprised he hasn't been cancelled for "not letting people enjoy things."
  - jessaustin 4y ago
    It's less surprising than one might think, given that he passed away 22 years ago.
- eternalban 4y ago
  > "living in a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities.” The trend of comics cum cinema, and wizards lording it over muggles, which has been incessant for at least 20 years now, has been so consistent that it begs the question of why. The basic underlying theme of all these 'cultural' products has been to instill the idea that 'little normal people' are powerless victims, and only magical special people with superpowers not available to the common man gets to save the day. This has the been the programming for the past 20+ years. I hinted at this a few days ago in a comment regarding the strange case of "cults of personality" and "savior hero politicians" in the West.

gpderetta 4y ago

While the real lemming do not jump off a click, famously the characters of the eponymous games will indeed happily fall of the cliff if not stopped. So the meme lives on.