Disney-fication

The American dream?
"Karen Halttunen delivered a speech that would be published in American Quarterly the following year, entitled “Groundwork: American Studies in Place.” She discussed the “disneyfication” of American place-making; the replacement of reality with an idealized vision that engenders racism and sexism. What occurs in disneyfication is the substitution of place with an idea – one that is idealized, homogenous, and limiting. Disneyfication is problematic in that it only presents a simplified version of reality. The name obviously comes from Disney, whose presentation of ideas to children has traditionally been an idealized, optimistic representation of the world that doesn’t engage the realities of the world. This amounts to the filtration or censorship of ideas – ideas that fall outside a utopian vision of reality are eliminated."http://www.davelester.org/category/second-life/
Anomie reinvented...hmm
'Modern Times'Charlie Chaplin Film about alienation from monotonous unrewarding work in a Fordist company (I think?)
Ritzer's macdonaldisation
irrationality
homgeniety
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the vividly chaotic assumption of the 'known'-existence of one apophtegm, one ruling ideology, one indiscriminate tautology,one grand truth...Stifling opinions,perpectives,culture,diversity, lateral thinking,tolerance? and the like, entirely.
I'm thinking about joining second life,I'm afraid it might be too time-consuming.
SIMS with real people???
M.U.D
'should check it out in the holidays