wrote my 60 page thesis on this! nostalgia sells, escapism sells, and and most disney adults have the money to buy. the consumerist nature of obsession, entitlement and delusion is fascinating, but even more fascinating, in my opinion, is how disney has created the perfect environment to create disney adults so dedicated that they would rather visit a simulation of italy or france instead of the real place. fascinating! worrying! telling!
i wrote my thesis in 2023 without the context of the trump second term/tariffs/recession to come- so it is worth noting that when traveling outside of the country seems to be risky, when money is tight, and general gloom and doom has risen- i am not surprised southern californians and floridians flock to disney to escape the terror of reality.
I think for me part of the criticism of Disney adults is the hyper consumerist aspect, but mostly as someone who lives on the other side of the planet from Disneyland seeing people able to access something so causally that I would have to spend thousands on to go to is genuinely baffling.
I do think it's lovely to see people so excited and happy about something they love and honestly I don't think I'll ever be as happy as some of these people I've seen on social media at Disney.
My brothers and I once had a tour guide at DisneyWorld and I asked the guide to tall us the worst tour he ever had to lead. He said it was two families fighting nonstop. He finally had enough and uttered the immortal words, "This tour is over."
wrote my 60 page thesis on this! nostalgia sells, escapism sells, and and most disney adults have the money to buy. the consumerist nature of obsession, entitlement and delusion is fascinating, but even more fascinating, in my opinion, is how disney has created the perfect environment to create disney adults so dedicated that they would rather visit a simulation of italy or france instead of the real place. fascinating! worrying! telling!
i wrote my thesis in 2023 without the context of the trump second term/tariffs/recession to come- so it is worth noting that when traveling outside of the country seems to be risky, when money is tight, and general gloom and doom has risen- i am not surprised southern californians and floridians flock to disney to escape the terror of reality.
I think for me part of the criticism of Disney adults is the hyper consumerist aspect, but mostly as someone who lives on the other side of the planet from Disneyland seeing people able to access something so causally that I would have to spend thousands on to go to is genuinely baffling.
I do think it's lovely to see people so excited and happy about something they love and honestly I don't think I'll ever be as happy as some of these people I've seen on social media at Disney.
My brothers and I once had a tour guide at DisneyWorld and I asked the guide to tall us the worst tour he ever had to lead. He said it was two families fighting nonstop. He finally had enough and uttered the immortal words, "This tour is over."