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I think for me a lot of it is that Disney is completely commodified commercial art. It’s rarely about just telling great stories or making unique and beautiful things. And their park and cruises are that but turned up to 11. It’s a simulation of real things dumbed down until even the dumbest and most easily offended are nodding along. A lot of franchise films and shows are like that, having long since lost whatever was real and true about them in favor of selling fan-bait and pumping out the next money grab.
Burning man may be the reserve of rich idiots, but it’s not fake, not dumbed down and you don’t exit through the gift shop. The Eiffel Tower is a real place in real France full of real French people. Yes there are tourists, but there are also locals who aren’t there for ambiance but instead because they actually live there. Much of the same can be said of theater especially local stuff, or cultural events and other historical places. There’s a difference between a place created as a simulation of reality and an actual reality. The French part of Epcot is not and cannot be like real France.
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