"Maybe a mental catastrophe, a mental implosion and involution without precedence lies in wait for a system of this kind, who's visible signs would be those of this strange obesity, or the incredible co-existence of the most bazarre theories and practices, which correspond to the improbable coalition of luxury, heaven, and money, to the improbable luxurious materialization of life and un-discoverable contradictions."
- Jean Baudrillard
I don't think Disney is there to show America is real, it's there to show the logical extension of fantasy into reality and the impossibility of truth. Based on the fact that the United States is one of the few democracies founded upon an idea, that of the "city on a hill" (John Winthrop) serving as a beacon and almost 'prototype' society this creation of a closed environment where ideas become reality with no reference to their external possibility or probability is just another manifestation of this. Disneyland isn't there to show America its real, its there to show America what it looks like to the rest of the world.
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