Disneyworld exists in order to hide that it is in fact the 'real' country..the real USA.
Disneyland is a microcosm of all things American. - a love of bright, spectacular scenes, fantasy - a love of the disposable, the sugary sweet, the frivolous - a comfort in conforming to a greater force..the 'Disney mystic' - a society driven by stress, crowds, noise, and hyperbole.
Disneyworld functions to mislead us.
It is deterring our thoughts about the nature of reality.
It is set up as a kind of exaggerated contrast with what we typically call 'the real world' our day to day lives of work when we are not on vacation.
A man works and has a family.
A man works at his job the vast majority of the year.
Working can be said to be this man's 'reality'.
A man has vacation from work for a week.
He takes his family to Disneyworld for this period of time.
This is his 'break' from 'reality'. He enters 'fantasy' at this point.
Baudrillard says that this is not the case.
Disneyworld is actually there to distract us from the fact that our lives aren't 'real'.
There is fantasy and simulation dominating our day to day 'real lives'.
People come to Disneyworld to act childish and be swept up in fantasy...to take a break from the 'real world'.
Disneyworld allows this hedonistic childishness...suggests that the 'adults' are out there in the real world.
True childishness, is in fact, everywhere.
The adults who participate in the Disneyworld experience are in fact childish with warped, childish world views about what is valuable.
If they weren't truly naive, childish, and lacking in some profound way, they probably wouldn't go to Disneyworld at all and wouldn't support that kind of enterprise.
Disneyworld exists in order to hide that it is in fact the 'real' country..the real USA.
ReplyDeleteDisneyland is a microcosm of all things American.
- a love of bright, spectacular scenes, fantasy
- a love of the disposable, the sugary sweet, the frivolous
- a comfort in conforming to a greater force..the 'Disney mystic'
- a society driven by stress, crowds, noise, and hyperbole.
Disneyworld functions to mislead us.
It is deterring our thoughts about the nature of reality.
It is set up as a kind of exaggerated contrast with what we typically call 'the real world' our day to day lives of work when we are not on vacation.
A man works and has a family.
A man works at his job the vast majority of the year.
Working can be said to be this man's 'reality'.
A man has vacation from work for a week.
He takes his family to Disneyworld for this period of time.
This is his 'break' from 'reality'. He enters 'fantasy' at this point.
Baudrillard says that this is not the case.
Disneyworld is actually there to distract us from the fact that our lives aren't 'real'.
There is fantasy and simulation dominating our day to day 'real lives'.
People come to Disneyworld to act childish and be swept up in fantasy...to take a break from the 'real world'.
Disneyworld allows this hedonistic childishness...suggests that the 'adults' are out there in the real world.
True childishness, is in fact, everywhere.
The adults who participate in the Disneyworld experience are in fact childish with warped, childish world views about what is valuable.
If they weren't truly naive, childish, and lacking in some profound way, they probably wouldn't go to Disneyworld at all and wouldn't support that kind of enterprise.