Hi, I know you wrote this back in 2011, but
I had to comment because I can't understand how you don't see why people say he
was a mason. Ok, first of all, have you ever seen Disney's animations? I
imagine you have. Every single one of them contain subliminary messages with
sexual content, mostly. There are hundreds of videos on YouTube to back me up.
The connection I can make between WD and freemasonry without even trying hard
is that the last one clearly worships the devil. A man who fills (or allows people
to fill) his work with filthy content can't love God. Another thing I believe
you've found out by now, since it's one of your hobbies. Believe me, they do
not worship God, so you can easily realize who they really worship. Just to be
clear, I'm not a conspiracy theory believer, but I do believe you can't deny
what's right on your face. Sorry about my poor English. What I want to say to
you is, please don't be so naive to think he was just a sweet, brilliant and
respectable old man, it's clearly more complicated than that. Maybe not a
mason, ok, but he was obviously connected with something bad, which is what
really matters here.
To this reader, I
don’t see why people continue to say Walt Disney was a Mason. Having been raise around a few Mason in my
youth, I know that, while somewhat secretive about what happens in the lodges
regard their craft, I have never found Mason to be deliberately secretive about
their association with the craft. Most
Masons that I know freely display the symbolic trappings of their association. With that said, and my 10+ years of research,
I have found only two verifiable Masonic associations. One is the reference by Roy Disney, in his
biography by Bob Thomas, which he states he was a Mason and gave up his membership
in order to avoid creating any conflicts with his future Daughter-In-Law’s
Catholic views. The second being a
single DeMolay membership card for Walt on display and the Walt Disney Family
Museum. In all the pictures I have seen
over the last decade, I have not seen one displaying the symbolic association
that I see regularly on display with other Masons I know. Given all my research and unless someone can
present real evidence to the contrary, I will stand by my assessment that Walt
Disney was not a Freemason. I think the
whole Masonic association has been created in order to square stories people
want to believe about Walt Disney and the rather secretive nature of the
Masonic Order make the fabrication easier to sell. As to whether others in the Walt Disney
organization were Masonic members, as that has never been a topic of interest
or research to my knowledge. So I too
have not bothered to pursue it.
As for the claim of
filthy content, I think this claim, while somewhat accurate, is seriously overblown. I think many people have made some
associations with art work in some releases that is more than is present. In others there is a frame here and there
that may be of a more risqué nature.
However, I think it’s important to note that in the average theatrically
released animation feature, there are around 130,000 individually created
cells. If we look at those features
release while Walt was alive, that would put the cell count at in excess of 2
million piece of artwork. I think it is
a ludicrous notion to assume that Walt Disney himself reviewed every single
cell that went into each of his features.
Now, I know found my research that animation artists can have a rather
interesting sense of humor, and have from time to time admitted to sneaking risqué
frames into their animations. According to my research, when Walt did discover
the inclusion of this risqué content, he made sure it was removed, and I think
we do a disservice to history when we try to judge past events based on
currently morals and standards. There
are many cases where something that was acceptable behavior long ago, are no
longer acceptable by today’s norms. Also
interestingly, most of the more sexually oriented ones have been in features
release years after Walt’s passing, and I think unfairly attributed to Walt.
Finally, with
regards to what I think of Walt Disney, I do not delude myself into thinking
that Walt Disney was a saint. He was a
very creative and talent, forward thinking individual, but he was a man, just a
man and fallible like any other man. I
think that we have many individual who have attempted to deify the man, and as
such has caused many in the religious community to try to demonize him in
defense of their particular God. Anyone
who has really done the research on Walt Disney, I think will tell you that,
while he was a very detail oriented individual; he had some many different
interests and activities, that he didn’t allow himself to get bogged down in
the day to day minutiae of his businesses.
My job as an
historian, amateur or not and Disney relate or otherwise, is to present my
findings as unbiased as possible.
Your comments or questions
are always welcome. If you have a
correction or something you think I should look at in my research, please feel
free to contact me at mr.grumpyguy@gmail.com
