Eco discusses this idea of robots and how we are forced to
act and live like them in our society and culture. “The United States is filled
with cities that imitate a city.” This is exactly what a lot of neighborhoods
are like now. An example is Baldwin Park. My lacrosse team had to go biking
there last year and I just remember how interesting it was. The idea of having everything
you need right there is so convenient but strange at the same time because it
is like its own city even though it’s in Orlando. The best example of this I
think is Celebration, the living community that is owned by Disney. I went
there a few times and I think it is extremely creepy. Everything is so perfect
and organized and everything is available in the little community. It is like
living like a robot there, at least that is how I viewed it from the outside.
Robots are also meant to be controlled by someone of authority and I think that
is often times what happens to us, especially with Disney. We allow them to
make decisions for us as we go to the park, and travel around inside.
“Disney has been exalted as the inviolable common cultural
heritage of contemporary man; Disney is the great supernatural bridge across
which all human beings may communicate with each other.” This quote by Dorfman
means that Disney is a place everyone hears about as a child and most families
do make a visit to this famous park. But also outside of the US, Disney has
become a symbol that represents America. It is often what people think of when
they visit here.
“Fiction reinforces in a circular fashion…”. I think this is
the idea that everything eventually does come around and come to life even if
its just part of our imagination or something we heard about before.
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