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Some people just like Disney world. It's not some in depth cultural phenomenon. Disney is an escape. Some people like it.
Others play video games, jerk off to anime feet, or argue about which Linux distribution is best for jerking off to anime feet on a chrome fork.
Some people have multiple personalities, debilitating gambling compulsions or think that the third Godfather movie was the best in the series. We draw different lines for what is crazy all the time.
Going deep in debt to, willfully, be in an exploitative relationship with a predatory mega corporation that regurgitates your childhood memories over and over, strikes me as clinically bat shit.
Disney adults don’t even have to leave the house to fully commune with their favorite corporation in the flesh because they can live full-time in a branded city. For a million dollars or two, you can buy a sprawling house at Cotino, a 618-acre gated community in Rancho Mirage, California — the first in Disney’s Storyliving venture, which is developing master-planned suburban developments throughout the United States.
But yeah, different strokes, I guess.
Damn, using a Chrome fork is some filthy shit.
Stainless steel is the superior option, anyway smh
That's why it's best for jerking off to filthy fetish porn.
Pfff chrome fork 🙄
I for one use WolfCum a fork of LibreWolf (which is Firefox without AI bullshit), that's optimized for jerking it to anime feet
Thats not describing "kidults" , but basically your regular basic normie consumer; just with "disney" tints, or a "geeky" millenial. People trained and raised to believe someone else always has the answer and the responsibility, and that the only thing they can do to somehow change their situation in life is to buy/consume something different.
American culture is stuck in adolescence because culture has shifted towards the complete annihilation of any and all significant rites of passage into adulthood.
A child is someone that needs to be told what they can and can't do.
An adolescent is someone who tests the limits of what they can and can't do.
An adult is someone who enforces socially responsible limits of what they themselves and others can and can't do.
Never telling people "these are now your responsibilities towards others and we all expect you to take them seriously" in an in-equivocal ceremonial way is how you destroy a society.
I don't think you can say that no rites of passage means not becoming an adult. Rituals smooth or explain transitions, they're not a requirement for the transition to happen.
And besides their are plenty of rites of passage into adulthood in the US - first car is huge, moving out of home, first job, etc.
Telling people they don't have no responsibilities to others is the thing
There's nuance and nothing is absolute, sure.
I don't think they reached adolescents. They are still just wasting time escaping like when mum hands em the iPad so she can do the dishes.
Nothing wrong with escaping here and there if responsibilities are fulfilled.
The problem is when escapism becomes the purpose of living.
The great lie of western culture is that we are first and foremost, individuals and we should strive for maximum freedom i.e. our purpose is to be free. Let's take a look at the people in the world that can afford maximum freedom and have no practical accountability and see how/what they're doing.... yeah...
Purpose is important. If purpose strays too far away from "the best for others", bad things start happening really fast.
Nah read a real book watch a real movie. Sure like play your cod but follow it up with some disco Elysium cruelty squad specopstheline something read your ya fiction but then read some fucking literature have a meiville or a leguinn or something if you only ever escape you never engage or grow
youcantreadthis
Barely.
No families can afford theme parks in this economy.
Charly you haven't been.
This is more or less the reason.
Disney has limited space in the parks. You can only have so many line skipping and spot reserve schemes before people spend the entire day in line for attractions. So they've been increasing prices. This combined with the glorious "k shaped' economy means that childless millenials are one of the largest demographics that have the money and nostalgia to attend them.
Really didn't expect that reference...
In Simulacra and Simulation, French theorist Jean Baudrillard once wrote that Disneyland is “presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.”
Baudrillard now says he was off base with that book, but it's hard to write it off after the last decade.
In Simulacra and Simulation, French theorist Jean Baudrillard once wrote that Disneyland is “presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.”
If you want to experience a worked example of this...
Arrested development/immaturity, hedonism and consumerism are often comorbid. 🤷
The symptoms are not as important as the sources, though.
Disney adults are the most cringe shit ever.
I worked at big CA-based drug company, granted it was largely a phone-room but it was still a fairly serious job, with serious pay.
Most staff came up from CA and loved disney so hard. Disney movies were a topic at meetings, they expected everyone would know the characters, used disney references in presentations, characters as test patients, etc. Managers too.
Finding others who hated disney was like finding stoners at work before it was legal - all euphamisms and inuendo until you work out who to trust: "No i don't really have a favourite character", "I'm not familiar with that", "No, I ugh... haven't seen... i'm not super into... Oh thank god, yes, of course i fucking hate disney, who could possibly like the least interesting version of a fairytale marketed by a billion dollar empire founded by a nazi and evil enough to copyright happy birthday?!"
Capitalism exploits compulsions to extract resources causing markets to neglect investing in themselves.