{"id":882,"date":"2020-11-19T09:24:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T22:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/?p=882"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:37:46","slug":"plutology-ii-disney-plutology-vs-wb-bugsology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/plutology-ii-disney-plutology-vs-wb-bugsology\/","title":{"rendered":"Plutology II: Disney Plutology vs. WB Bugsology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being a mischievous sort of chap, when I first came across the name Hearn gave his book I immediately thought it must have been a scientific study of Walt Disney\u2019s cartoon character \u201cPluto the Pup\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The connection between Pluto and wealth or money was rather tenuous until I came across this image of Disney play money with Pluto on the $1,000,000 bill:<\/p>\n

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Being a timorous creature, Pluto never was able to stand up for himself when the predatory bull-dog attempted to steal his food (i.e. his \u201cwealth\u201d):<\/p>\n

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In the historical context when Disney, Mickey, and Pluto were made and were very popular, the 1930s and 1940s, one could interpret the heavily dog-collared \u201cButch\u201d as a fascist or communist tyrant preying upon the docile dogs of the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

By own preference in cartoon characters is not the saccharine, obedient and conformist Mickey Mouse, Mini Mouse, and their pet dog Pluto; but rather the anarchistic, disrespectful, Brooklyn accented, and uncontrollable Bugs Bunny:<\/p>\n

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Whose face adorns a much more modest $1 dollar bill:<\/p>\n

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When faced with a tyrant, Bugs preferred to undermine the system from within (as in \u201cGremlins in the Kremlin\u201d) or outright mockery )of Nazis like Herman Goering):<\/p>\n

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Or, when he turns into a \u201cRebel Rabbit\u201d (1949): ((See the entry<\/a> for \u201cRebel Rabbit\u201d Wikipedia<\/em> and a copy of the whole cartoon here<\/a>.))<\/p>\n

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who takes on the entire government when he finds out that some bureaucrat in Washington D.C. – the \u201cGame Commissioner\u201d – thought that rabbits were so harmless that the bounty placed on their capture or killing by hunters was a paltry 2 cents (whereas foxes had a bounty of $50). Bugs considers this to be an act of \u201cdiscrimination.\u201d and decides to confront the Commissioner. Bugs is put in his place by the abusive government bureaucrat:<\/p>\n

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so he decides to go on a rampage of protest and resistance, by beating a government guard with his own truncheon:<\/p>\n

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defacing the Washington Monument by painting it like a barber pole;<\/p>\n

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and selling the island of Manhattan back to the Indians:<\/p>\n

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The result is that a new bounty of $1 million is placed on his head:<\/p>\n

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and the entire U.S. military is mobilised to capture him:<\/p>\n

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It takes the entire \u201cWar Department\u201d to capture Bugs and incarcerate him in Alcatraz Prison, from which he will no doubt escape by tunneling out as he always does:<\/p>\n

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Being a mischievous sort of chap, when I first came across the name Hearn gave his book I immediately thought it must have been a scientific study of Walt Disney\u2019s cartoon character \u201cPluto the Pup\u201d. The connection between Pluto and wealth or money was rather tenuous until I came across this image of Disney play … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[75,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-economics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203695,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/203695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}