Hyper-Real

  It seems that we are living in a synthetic world. This lack of reality and nature is detrimental to the soul that once was kept alive by love and appreciation of art. Disney's embodiment of this is in its existence. We need not a park to simulate idyllic nature and art if we were not destroying the authentic nature and art. Walt Disney himself a true capitalist who pioneered the industries of robotics, animation, amusement, and brainwashing.
  The morals and values of Disney were disseminated in cartoon form to generations of children and adults. His constructions of beauty, truth, and bravery all wrapped into white, primarily rich, characters. Then his amusement parks with palaces, royalty, surveillance, and private police; with an emphasis on taking a piece of the 'real' experience home via mass-produced plastic novelty. The power of a Disney, say in just being a huge influence on its localities, political and otherwise, is beyond any dream of the founders of this nation. So, as we worship the cult of new and lose our sense of originality and 'reality' we usher in new transformations of such method. Now the Amusement city, such as Eco calls attention, like Las Vegas and perhaps even Orlando (with its multitude of tourism) seem to lack heart and soul. It is just a destination rather than a home.

  So, what happens to the real when hyper-real invades? More falsity, more fakery. With technology people are able to construct concrete structure from their minds. When you go to Disney, you visit Walt's Brain, and his Imagineers brains. Those constructions come from their minds; not from nature, or God. How much carry-over comes into the real world from their fantastic creations? Financially, socially, politically, economically--with so many aspects what is the cost to reality? In this case Disney attempts to seize being "The Happiest Place on Earth", a wild boast for anything but in the framework of reality constructed in the hyper-real, post-industrial, and the post-modern this idea has been seized and there world be many consumers that would agree and posit this claim to be true! Now thats power.... and quite sad.