Thanksgiving

Thursday, 22 November 2007 by Paul Dubuc.

I once took a trip to Disney World with my family and we stayed for a week. Much of it was fun, but after a few days in that world I began to have an uneasy feeling. Disney World is a fabricated experience that is made to be as totally enveloping as possible. Everywhere you go there are amusements, entertainments, displays and details that seem to blur the line between fantasy and reality. The transportation, the restaurants and living accommodations are all part of the design. I went into a building designed to look like a church in Norway which wasn’t really a church building. The apartment we stayed in was modeled to look like a tree house out of Swiss Family Robinson but it wasn’t built in a real tree. I saw robots designed to look and act like humans and humans dressed up and acting like robots. After a few days of living in this world I looked up at the stars in the night sky and the thought crossed my mind, “at least those are real, aren’t they?” As much fun as Disney World was, especially for the kids, I was happy to get back to the real world. But how real is the world I live in? Read the rest of this entry »

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