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The Disney Universe is actually an post-apocalyptic future where magic is used to manipulate people’s memories.

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This is my first time posting here, sorry if I made any mistakes.<br><br>The world had been destroyed by nuclear war in the 1950s, but some people miraculously managed to survive. <br><br>They found that radiation (which they called magic) had a weird effect on the brain; it could manipulate people’s memories. It couldn’t be used to make people do things they didn’t want to, but it could make them forget how dangerous something was, allow them to not react to unpleasant things, and even reduce their reaction to pain.<br><br>The survivors used this magic to create Disney worlds, places where people (and themselves) could go to forget about how bad their lives were. <br><br>But as the years passed, people began to ask questions. They started to wonder if the worlds they had created to make people forget were just as bad as the world outside them. <br><br>Some said that it was better to live in a world of fantasy than a harsh world of reality. Others said that people had the right to know the truth, and that the worlds were just keeping people in ignorance.<br><br>This conflict was never resolved, and became known as the “Disney paradox”.<br><br>The Disney paradox also made people start to question the nature of reality itself, and to wonder how much of what they knew was the truth, and how much was manipulated by magic. <br><br>As people grew more and more paranoid, the worlds created to make people happy started to break down. <br><br>Some places collapsed and were abandoned, while others became twisted by the magic that had been used on them, and were overrun by twisted visions of what they were meant to be (the world of “The Twilight Zone” was one of these).<br><br>In the end, many were left to wonder if Disney had really been “The Happiest Place On Earth”.

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