Not gonna lie-I cried when Mufasa died

People are so easily distracted/

That's why the war in Iraqis sort of like a Disney movie... The conflict was presented...all kinds of characters both charming and villanous were presented... the audience reacts and chooses a stance.... by the time you get about halfway into a Disney movie...some part of you, somewhere in your body, forgets that you're watching a movie and you find yourself distracted. Somewhere amidst the mini dramas of this war in Iraq we all forgot that we were being force-fed all kinds of unstable information in a time of great confusion.... some wanted revenge for the events of 9/11-some were just plain sad....everyone, everywhere felt something. We'd all played into this idea that we were bound by this horrible event and we needed to fill our frames in order to cope with it. Some became incredibly patriotic, others incredibly cynical... That is sort of why I kind of agree.. with the analogy of the war in Iraq to a Disney movie. We all want to act all tough and mighty like our feelings never get in the way of our own good judgements...I think we all felt a little unsettled when Mufasa bit the dust in front of his son in the Lion King...its just... the point that it is so easy to become so clouded up with opinions and ideas that we forget what the actual cause of emotion was. Advertising is like that. Does anyone remember the Jif commercial where the two little girls were having a sleep over and the one girl was homesick so the other girl made her a sandwich using Jif, and suddenly everything was groovy....I don't know... it's easy for them to target our emotions because we're so weak in that department... we crumble as soon as our feelings are taken into view. Part of this is because we all think that our lives mean so damn much. Like everything is really THAT important.... we are so very caught up in our own daily dramas that we integrate so many outside forces into our perceptions that we don't even realize how bombarded we are by it all. Just tossing our dollar bills into the air... playing the game...buying yellow ribbon magnets for our cars...or bumper stickers that say "Defend America- defeat Bush..." whatever. We're all caught up in it. If this war in Iraq really is like a Disney movie-I hope it has a happy ending