Post Class Blog 10/10

After Wednesday's class discussion on Eco, The City of Robots, I feel like there are further elaborations to my earlier post. "Disney has been exalted as the inviolable common cultural heritage of contemporary man; . . . Disney is the great supranational bridge across which all human beings may communicate with each other. (110) Here Eco is talking about the notion of what it means to be a common man in this regard and how we literally all grow up with these illusions of the theme park and how it is natural to grow up on Disney. I found it interesting that we spoke about what is normal to grow up with in our lives and especially in relation to Disney movies, toys and even family vacations to the parks. When foreigners think of America they think Disney, New York and LA. This is through what it means to be American and what it means to be a child is being raised on the principles that Disney teaches us. I can communicate with someone who may have very little in common with me in knowing that there may be a 80% chance they know something about a Disney Story. It was also very interesting to not that there were only two people who had not. Eco stated that "fiction reinforces in a circular fashion" (128) After exploring this quote more in class, we noticed that fiction becomes a commodity and one that is extremely constructed. This does not just could for the Disneyfication that Eco is attempting to show the reader but also stands for a variety of different ideas, like toys and child. Toys are miniatures of adult life, like the example of the boy who plays with a truck a truck that his father may own. The end of the commercial states that "Chevy Runs Deep", this is true for our socially constructed behaviors and the idea of circular fashions.