Here's a news flash: I don't think that Disney is the actual enemy here. They are soldiers (maybe field grade officers) in a scheme run by certain generals. Those generals are Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street, Berkshire Hathaway, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, etc, etc.
Do you think that we, as individuals, have any say in this? You can stop giving Disney your money. You can cancel your Hulu subscription. You can burn all your Mickey Mouse memorabilia at a major public demonstration. If you hold Disney stock, you can sell it. Won't make the slightest difference. Even if we all do the same thing.
So where are you going to go for entertainment? Maybe Paramount...
Notice who the principal owners are of Paramount. We could go with all the other entertainment companies and we'd find the same thing. They are all principally owned by investment houses.
Who owns the investment houses?
In the case of Blackrock, we have the following:
In the case of Berkshire-Hathaway, we have the following:
And you'll see the same kind of crap with most of them. Vanguard is privately held -- allegedly the ownership of the Vanguard mutual funds determines who actually runs the company.
By the way, do I know of a "non-woke" investment house? No.
Indirectly, the control they exert comes from you and me. You participate in a 401(k) or 457(b)? You have an IRA? You're providing the lifeblood for this. Are you a union member with a union pension or a government employee with a government pension fund (or in the case of the feds, TSP)? Your money is doing this. Because their management of your money is giving them the power to exert their control over every single publicly-traded corporation in the country and mostly in the world.
Do you remember the movie "Network" and the speech given by Ned Beatty? "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!" Well, that is more true than any of us would want to imagine. I personally think the only thing wrong about it is that it is not one college of corporations. Rather, it is one college of investment houses.
Do I like it? No!
But when so few people actually understand what is truly going on underneath the surface, what's one old man going to do?
As George Carlin said, "It's a big club, and you ain't in it".
Now, there's a strategy for what you can do to protect yourself, but I don't see a solution for society at large.