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Cheerful Solipsism

April 9th, 2007 | 1 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Walt Disney was doubtlessly one of the formative influences on modern American culture.  Like most young people, I grew up watching Bambi, Davy Crockett and a host of other Disney films on the Wonderful World of Disney.  This review of a recent biography of Walt Disney points out that the cheerful solipsism of Mickey and other films eventually lost its cheer in Walt Disney's life:

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.