Desert of the Real
Disneyland is a perfect model of all the entangled orders of simulation. To begin with it is a play of illusions and phantasms: pirates, the frontier, future world, etc. This imaginary world is supposed to be what makes the operation successful. But, what draws the crowds is undoubtedly much more the social microcosm, the miniaturized and religious revelling in real America, in its delights and drawbacks. You park outside, queue up inside, and are totally abandoned at the exit. In this imaginary world the only phantasmagoria is in the inherent warmth and affection of the crowd, and in that aufficiently excessive number of gadgets used there to specifically maintain the multitudinous affect. The contrast with the absolute solitude of the parking lot - a veritable concentration camp - is total. Or rather: inside, a whole range of gadgets magnetize the crowd into direct flows; outside, solitude is directed onto a single gadget: the automobile. By an extraordinary coincidence (one that undoubtedly belongs to the peculiar enchantment of this universe), this deep-frozen infantile world happens to have been conceived and realized by a man who is himself now cryogenized; Walt Disney, who awaits his resurrection at minus 180 degrees centigrade.
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6/19/2025, 4:32:16 AM
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>>24477949
My favourite quote of his is how the ontological reality of the United States is obesity, as though viewing itself in the silly mirrors of a funhouse.
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6/19/2025, 4:33:10 AM
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>>24477944 (OP)
Uh I think people are there to see Goofy and hop on space mountain.
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6/19/2025, 4:34:35 AM
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>>24477954
Watergate. Same scenario as Disneyland (an imaginary effect concealing that reality no more exists outside than inside the bounds of the art)ficial perimeter): though here it is a scandal-effect concealing that there is no difference between the facts and their denunciation (identical methods are employed by the CIA and the Washington Post journalists). Same operation, though this time tending towards scandal as a means to regenerate a moral and political principle, towards the imaginary as a means to regenerate a reality principle in distress.
>>24477953
Have you read White Noise by Delillo? Isnt it crazy how that train crashed in Ohio during the filming of the movie and caused an IRL airborne toxic event.... Simulation and simulacra
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6/19/2025, 4:39:53 AM
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>>24477957
Yeah, if pseud crap like this is the alternative I'll stick to Donald Duck.
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6/19/2025, 4:40:02 AM
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>>24477944 (OP)
this is an adult take, when you go to disneyworld as a little kid it's about seeing your favorite characters come to life all around you
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6/19/2025, 4:49:13 AM
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>>24477973
Tell me you possess a low literacy level without telling me you have a low literacy level.
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6/19/2025, 4:50:14 AM
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>>24477974
>m-muh wunderkind
Get over it. You're an adult now. Now grow out of your childish fantasies that were formed by capitalists.
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6/19/2025, 5:50:47 AM
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>>24477996
i did and i'm not concerned with disneyworld now, but that's what the experience was when i was a kid, not the op description
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6/19/2025, 6:03:10 AM
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>>24477965
I live near there in Youngstown. It really happened, dickhead.
>>24478140
That's not what I was saying at all.... You clearly haven't read S&S.
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6/19/2025, 6:07:09 AM
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>>24478149
So you don't come off like a retard getting upset at misinterpreted comments on 4chan in a thread about Baudrillard.
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6/19/2025, 10:44:39 PM
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>>24477944 (OP)
What is in this book that wasn't covered already by other and better thinkers?
