Ginsberg’s Theorem is a parody of the laws of thermodynamics applied to other human pursuits, in the current case, the hopeless race for woke virtue recognition in the Age of the Great Stupid. It begins with the fact that an entity or an individual has begun playing a game, and continues,
1. You can’t win the game.
2. You can’t break even in the game.
3. You can’t quit the game.
The Disney Corporation stumbled into Ginsberg Theorem territory when it decided to make a live action version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in the throes of the company’s self-destructive woke virtue-signaling addiction. It began by casting a Snow White “of color,” which, of course, made no sense at all, since the whole story is based on an obsession to be the “fairest one of all,” and the central character is named Snow White. Snow that is not white has many icky implications.
Having started to play the game, Disney felt it had to react appropriately when actor Peter Dinklage of “Game of Thrones” fame, the best known of all performing “Little People,” gratuitously attacked the project, saying, “It makes no sense to me. You’re progressive in one way, but then you’re still making that fucking backward story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together!” That single critique from a single individual who had appointed himself as the voice of all small people everywhere was all it took for Disney to make the mind-blowing—but woke!—decision to make “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” without dwarfs. As chronicled here at the time, as soon as a picture of the seven replacements hit social media…
…the backlash and ridicule was so furious that those whatever-the-hell they were supposed to be were canned, the movie’s premiere was cancelled, and the whole film went back to the drawing board. Let’s see now: the live action version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” couldn’t have dwarfs play dwarfs because…well, because Peter Dinklage said so. They couldn’t replace Little People actors with non-dwarfs, no matter how “diverse” and “inclusive” they were, because that made no sense, though it took the social media mob to explain this to Disney’s creative team. Ah-HA! The solution was to have a live action movie with 7/8 of the title characters not played by actors, but by weird CGI things reminiscent of the original animated film’s iconic dwarfs, but neither as charming nor as convincing….
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