the theme park virus

the theme park experience is intended to certify a fanciful idealized vision of ourselves.
theme parks do not intend to explain the rational and irrational in our lives, nor to inform us of the differences of thought, expression, and beliefs of others
- except as they reinforce stereotypes. the dominant view of our culture and its ways must come
to be understood as the only acceptable interpretation. in many ways theme park culture is much like a secular religious culture that insists that all real-life events be fit to its own theology. to do this, theme parks must take our historical events, environments, conditions and lifestyles and sanitize them while they synthesize them. a simplified history and other realities are turned into neat pleasant packages that can be swallowed in dainty morsels with very little 'indigestion.'

american theme parks and the landscapes of mass culture
http://www.americansc.org.uk/disney.htm#Origin
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