BubbaNub Eco

So I couldn't help but think while I was reading Eco's "The City of Robots" what I would do differently to enhance the illusion that Disneyworld and all of these fake cities create. Truly they have "absolutely reproduced" something terrifyingly fascinating, a "degenerate utopia" where we are forced to accept the fake as commercial reality (202). "The Main Street facades are presented to us as toy houses and invite us to enter them, but their interior is always a disguised supermarket, where you buy obsessively, believing that you are still playing" (202). This is similarly representative of the Harry Potter consumer driven madness, where it is alright to purchase and spend once you have accepted that you want to take part in his "world".

So what else could further this illusion? What would be the final step, the step that cements a community of people in these "fake cities" to live out the rest of their lives? One thing that came to mind when I asked the question "What is our last remaining link to the real world?" was money, the very thing that drives and builds these falsifications. What if they were to take your money at the door, exchanging it for Disney Dollars or Vegas Virtues (something to that effect)? If this were to happen you would have lost the last thing chaining you to what we have accepted as the "real world" and this construction/falsification would in fact become more real than what lies outside its vast sea of parking lots and gates. As Disneyworld proves we have the power to create worlds, just as it creates robots, robots that serve their purpose better than a human ever could........truly a frightening concept indeed.