Disney World

Nothing is real at Disney World except the reality of the transformation of self through myth and fantasy...a literal transformation which is less about self-awareness than a sense of belonging. What a visitor sees and does at the theme parks is only a fairly-dusted shadow of life on the outside; a simulacrum; a faint, unreal likeness of how man has defined himself through modernism. A family vacation to Disney World is a rite of passage, a virtual pilgrimage, and a baptismal plunging into a world of make believe. The Disney World illusion of reality redefines good, clean fun with Orwellian machination. One has arrived and one belongs - that is, after the credit cards have been paid off.