Dick Staub Interview with Neil Gabler, “Walt Disney The Triumph of the American Imagination.” Walt Disney’s influence on American life and culture is unquestionable, but Disney himself is shrouded in myth and mystery. Now one of our finest analysts of entertainment in American life brings us a well-documented and definitive look at Walt Disney and raises provocative questions about the Disney mythology and about the mythmaker himself.

 

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Dick Staub Interview with Neil Gabler, “Walt Disney The Triumph of the American Imagination.” Walt Disney’s influence on American life and culture is unquestionable, but Disney himself is shrouded in myth and mystery. Now one of our finest analysts of entertainment in American life brings us a well-documented and definitive look at Walt Disney and raises provocative questions about the Disney mythology and about the mythmaker himself.

 

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Dick Staub Interview with Neil Gabler, “Walt Disney The Triumph of the American Imagination.” Walt Disney’s influence on American life and culture is unquestionable, but Disney himself is shrouded in myth and mystery. Now one of our finest analysts of entertainment in American life brings us a well-documented and definitive look at Walt Disney and raises provocative questions about the Disney mythology and about the mythmaker himself.

 

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A Dick Staub Interview with Neil Gabler, “Walt Disney The Triumph of the American Imagination.” Walt Disney’s influence on American life and culture is unquestionable, but Disney himself is shrouded in myth and mystery. Now one of our finest analysts of entertainment in American life brings us a well-documented and definitive look at Walt Disney and raises provocative questions about the Disney mythology and about the mythmaker himself.

John De Graf, producer of the PBS special “Affluenza” and co-author of the book by the same title, is joined by Tom Sine futurist and author of “Mustard Seed versus McWorld” and Jennie Spohr producer of TKM, filmmaker and volunteer with Intertnational Justice Mission for our discussion of Affluenza. In what is being called “Christmas creep,” retailers are introducing the Christmas shopping season earlier and earlier, now even before Thanksgiving. It isn’t like Americans need more stuff. If as George Carlin says, “A house is a pile of stuff with a cover on it,” we’ve got plenty of stuff. As a matter of fact “America’s 103 million households currently contain and consume more stuff than all other households in history put together.” “Thirty-four percent of Americans polled in 2000 rank shopping as their favorite activity, while only seventeen percent prefer being in nature.” Something is wrong with us, we suffer a disease, a disease dubbed Affluenza.

 

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John De Graf, producer of the PBS special “Affluenza” and co-author of the book by the same title, is joined by Tom Sine futurist and author of “Mustard Seed versus McWorld” and Jennie Spohr producer of TKM, filmmaker and volunteer with International Justice Mission for a discussion on “Affluenza.” In what is being called “Christmas creep,” retailers are introducing the Christmas shopping season earlier and earlier–now even before Thanksgiving. It isn’t like Americans need more stuff. If as George Carlin says, “A house is a pile of stuff with a cover on it,” we’ve got plenty of stuff. As a matter of fact “America’s 103 million households currently contain and consume more stuff than all other households in history put together.” “Thirty-four percent of Americans polled in 2000 rank shopping as their favorite activity, while only seventeen percent prefer being in nature.” Something is wrong with us, we suffer a disease, a disease dubbed Affluenza.

 

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In what is being called “Christmas creep,” retailers are introducing the Christmas shopping season earlier and earlier–now even before Thanksgiving. It isn’t like Americans need more stuff. If as George Carlin says, “A house is a pile of stuff with a cover on it,” we’ve got plenty of stuff. As a matter of fact “America’s 103 million households currently contain and consume more stuff than all other households in history put together.” “Thirty-four percent of Americans polled in 2000 rank shopping as their favorite activity, while only seventeen percent prefer being in nature.” Something is wrong with us, we suffer a disease, a disease dubbed Affluenza in a PBS special produced by John De Graf who is also co-author of the book “Affluenza.”

 

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Teens are leaving the church. According to the National Opinion Research center, in 1998 only 16% of 18 to 22 year olds had an active ongoing relationship with the faith of their parents. In “Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers” Christian Smith concludes that even when living at home and active in church, teens are embracing an aberrant Christianity, which he describes as moralistic, therapeutic deism.” Ask teens why they’re leaving the church and they may say: 1) I never experienced God there; 2) My tribal associations are stronger outside church than in it; 3) The issues that matter to me aren’t addressed at church and the issues addressed at church don’t matter to me; or, 4) I never saw anything in my parents that made me want to be a Christian. On this edition of The Kindlings Muse, “Why teens are leaving the church and why they are right to do so,” with guests Bill Hogg and Ryan Beattie.

 

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Teens are leaving the church. According to the National Opinion Research center, in 1998 only 16% of 18 to 22 year olds had an active ongoing relationship with the faith of their parents. In “Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers,” Christian Smith concludes that even when living at home and active in church, teens are embracing an aberrant Christianity, which he describes as moralistic, therapeutic deism.” Ask teens why they’re leaving the church and they may say: 1) I never experienced God there; 2) My tribal associations are stronger outside church than in it; 3) The issues that matter to me aren’t addressed at church, And the issues addressed at church don’t matter to me; or, 4) I never saw anything in my parents that made me want to be a Christian. On this edition of The Kindlings Muse: Why teens are leaving the church and why they are right to do so” with guests Bill Hogg and Ryan Beattie.

 

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Teens are leaving the church. According to the National Opinion Research center, in 1998 only 16% of 18 to 22 year olds had an active ongoing relationship with the faith of their parents. In “Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers” Christian Smith concludes that even when living at home and active in church, teens are embracing an aberrant Christianity, which he describes as moralistic, therapeutic deism.” Ask teens why they’re leaving the church and they may say: 1) I never experienced God there; 2) My tribal associations are stronger outside church than in it; 3) The issues that matter to me aren’t addressed at church, and the issues addressed at church don’t matter to me; or, 4) I never saw anything in my parents that made me want to be a Christian. On this edition of The Kindlings Muse: “Why teens are leaving the church and why they are right to do so” with guests Bill Hogg, cultural gadfly and Ryan Beattie, of the Seattle Vineyard.

 

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