We meet families who never vacation anywhere non-Disney. We learn of couples who get married here and ride in Cinderella's coach. With resolve that is nothing short of heroic, I fight the mind control. Amusement is the commodified negation of play. At Disney World, the world's most highly developed private property 'state' devoted to amusement, play is all but eliminated by the absolute domination of program over spontaneity.
Optimism is a sound economic decision.
I will take a look at messages presented at Horizons, The Land, and the Living Seas at Future World. As with the other major areas of interest examined so fat, Disney tells stories that propose a particular set of relations among human beings, corporations, and the natural world. At The Land, Horizons, and The Living Seas in particular, Future World shows us a nature with contradictory aspects. It is harsh and hostile on the one hand, an adversary to be conquered with engineering and will. If so controlled, we will find that nature is full of 'gifts' for us that are ready for the taking.