BiegieGo, 10/4

Does reality actually outstrip fiction? In our last class discussion our class decided that reality does outstrip fiction. We came up with some examples such are reality being scripted such as the director setting up a scene to take place to make the show better which leads to having a better plot in the story and ultimately having it all in a framed show such as “The real world, or even in different cities such as Las Vegas or Disneyland.” We can take the computer game called the “Sims” and analyzes it. this is a game that you can build a fake world on the computer were only you are in control of what kind of life you want to live weather its having a lot of money to living simple. This goes back to the last theorist we read about vertical reality. Baudrillard explains to us that there a success phases of the image were we can look at an image and tell if something is being mask or the truth of the image is absent or if it even has any relation to the real.
Our class was presented to images of war and dead soldiers. What if we were presented with images of fake cities? Images of cities such as Las Vegas “the world of gambling” or even Disney world “the world of fantasies?” I was just reading the article “The City of Robots.” It tells about how Las Vegas is the city of gambling and how it’s becoming more residential and then it goes into describing California’s Disneyland and it talks a little about Florida’s Disney world. while I was reading I wasn’t really thinking clear but after reading about how Disney makes the rides like robots I was thinking that maybe not only the rides of Disney are robotic but the people who go and consume this kind of entertainment are also like robots in a way. We go to these theme parks to be entertained by fake things, the imitation of the real. Why are humans so compelled to want to be entertained by the fake? Why do we spend so much money on fake fantasies?