[rectang]

> * Tolstoy wrote them; they couldn’t be that bad. Now I sincerely wish I had never touched them.*

The reviewer is Disney's useful idiot. Gotta stay away from Tolstoy — it's not just disturbing, it's actually dangerous!

Only Bowdlerized and Disneyfied happy happy joy joy for your kids!

And if you aren't perpetually happy all your life, it's not not that the universe is indifferent to human suffering, it's that there's something wrong with you.

> There isn’t even that much to talk to your children about: trees are nice, don’t cut them down so much? People are not all that happy?

Yeah. Maybe "People are not all that happy" would be a good thing for kids to learn.

[dang]

Please don't post in the flamewar snark style to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Maybe you don't owe the LA Review of Books better, but you owe this community better. Bashing another with your snark prowess doesn't open up thoughtful conversation.

We're trying to have a community that manages not to succumb to the default of internet-acidic. I'm sure you know this, because we've had to ask you about this several times before. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and using HN as intended, we'd be grateful.

[rectang]

What you're asking for here only requires a minor adjustment on my part, which I'm happy to make: I'll pretend that the authors of the posted articles are HN posters.

In the big picture, it's jarring that I'm regarded one of the problem children around here considering how few of my posts I perceive as risky or potentially transgressive of HN norms (which yes, I have thought over quite a lot). But I suppose it makes sense (sigh). Tech is my second career and I'm generally horrified by the tech culture I parachuted into, especially how the hacker ethos which could be so iconoclastic and egalitarian is so exclusionary in practice. HN is more friendly than many tech haunts thanks to the moderation, but it remains alien.

[zamfi]

> And if you aren't perpetually happy all your life, it's not not that the universe is indifferent to human suffering, it's that there's something wrong with you.

How people respond to adversity and suffering matters.

[notyourday]

Old Disney stuff was dark. The fluffy versions are relatively recent.

[ken]

How far do I have to go back? I know Sleeping Beauty (1959) is definitely much sanitized from the stories it's based on.

[notyourday]

Thirties and forties.

[coribuci]

Snow white is dark ???

Disney is brainwash for children.

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

The fluffy versions sell. How popular would Little Mermaid have been, if at the end, Ariel ended up as sea foam?

[coribuci]

depends on the director and the script.