Subliminal messages

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On Wed, 25 Oct 1995 ormsbee@MIT.EDU wrote:

> Someone posted earlier mentioning a rumor about "the Lion King", and other 
> Disney kid films containing subliminal sexual messages.  The list might be 
> interested to check out todays (10/24/95) _Wall Street Journal_, which ran 
> a cover story on the very subject. The article shows that the rumor is 
> baseless, and probably began in certain Evangelical circles which, like the 
> "Proctor and Gamble are satanists" rumor, spread like wildfire.
> 
> I'm not defending Disney - there is plenty of non-subliminal garbage that 
> they and others put out which is un-healthy, not to mention un-godly - but, 
> I think uncritical acceptance of such rumors (especially secret messages) 
> can be embarrassing.  As RichardM's post about the "numbers game" 
> beautifully illustrates.

This is interesting. However, you might also want to know that Disney 
*pulled* the "Little Mermaid" soundtrack because of this "art" on the 
front cover. If it were simple a hoax, then why would they pull an album, 
thus lusing all of that profit?


Andy

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