Pixar's Soul: Finding Yourself Under Capitalism
Pete Doctor takes us into the meaning of life, but is there something hollow at its center of it?
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Bibliography and Further Reading
Soul using uncomfortable blackface: / whats-wrong-with-pixar-s-soul-animation-ra...
Tom Wolfe’s famous article declaring the 70s the “me decade”: https://nymag.com/news/features/45938/
Google ngram of the term “personal fulfillment” showing its rise in the 1960s and 70s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph...
How distrust of the government among the hippy movement led them to embrace Libertarianism: https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
Twitter thread about conservative’s using the “money can’t buy happiness” slogan to say we don’t need to raise the minimum wage: / 1