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Pixar's Soul: Finding Yourself Under Capitalism

Pixar's Soul: Finding Yourself Under Capitalism

Released Saturday, 27th March 2021
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Pixar's Soul: Finding Yourself Under Capitalism

Pixar's Soul: Finding Yourself Under Capitalism

Pixar's Soul: Finding Yourself Under Capitalism

Pixar's Soul: Finding Yourself Under Capitalism

Saturday, 27th March 2021
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Pete Doctor takes us into the meaning of life, but is there something hollow at its center of it?

Bibliography and Further Reading

* Soul using uncomfortable blackface: https://noripatterson.medium.com/whats-wrong-with-pixar-s-soul-animation-racism-and-blackface-c9a7709cd50f
* Tom Wolfe’s famous article declaring the 70s the “me decade”: https://nymag.com/news/features/45938/
* Google ngram of the term “personal fulfillment” showing its rise in the 1960s and 70s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Personal+fulfillment&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2CPersonal%20fulfillment%3B%2Cc0
* How distrust of the government among the hippy movement led them to embrace Libertarianism: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/may/19/comment
* Twitter thread about conservative’s using the “money can’t buy happiness” slogan to say we don’t need to raise the minimum wage: https://twitter.com/cons_owned/status/1372670714201968641/photo/1

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