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Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 4:38 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Kaplan's
money
> When you go to Disneyland and get on a E-ticket ride (maybe E
tickets
> are passe, who knows), you stay on the ride til the end for
complete
> satisfaction. The Ks left -- too bad for them, but they were
fools.
>
> The Ks could have been 200percenters, rich and
enlightened, but like
> stereotypical snotty rich kids, they threw a
tantrum, made a lot of
> faces, and left with their baseball glove,
instead of sticking around
> and helping the movement to grow.
>
> ----Duh. I'm so stupid. Why didn't I think of that?
Probably
because you realized that "stick with one
ride until the end" was part of a
dogma that was
carefully *taught* to you, and you rejected dogma,
not
the ride. As a result, you're still on the
ride (although a different
ride), while others are
merely out walking the dogma, in circles.
:-)
Unc
----Nah, I
probably didn't think of it because:
(a) I don't go to Disneyland
to get enlightened,
(b) There's too many spies at
Disneyland to be able to do anything truely fun,
(c) I never much liked Disney
as a kid so don't find it appealing as an adult,
(d) I once was not let into
Disneyland because I was a punk rocker,
(e) Once on a ride I finish
it because getting off midway just is not a consideration,
(f) I prefer Six
Flags,
(g) Enlightenment is not a
ride that you can get on and off of,
(h) Enlightenment is for
those who have left childish toys behind,
(i) I'd rather ride my fallen
guru,
(j) Disneyland specifically
is for children,
(k) There's a lack
of any real thrillers,
(l) I prefer
drugs,
(m)I prefer
sex,
(n)I prefer rock n
roll,
(o) I could complete this
silly excercise mid way, but I'm getting off the ride.
Which reminds me of smoking a joint on Mr. Toad
with a friend named Tara as a kid. Halfway through a security guy stepped out
from behind an effigy and told us to put it out because the figures were all
made of paper. He was cool. Another time, we smoked a joint on the
sky tram going to some ride. I've been to Disneyland probably about 30
times in my life. Disney World I had always heard had twice the shit, but
actually it doesn't, it merely has two exact achiral rides for each one of
Disneylands, so as to cram more people in. (Not considering
Epcot).
Disney recently started
making films that are Pg, to try to grab more of the market. Their original
mandate has changed from kids entertainment to young adult. This shows that
kids in general are growing up. And it also shows that at heart Disney is
about making money. Once the original Disney passed, (RIP WD), it merely
became a corporation just like any other devoid of a through-line of
originality based on vision.
Bob, do you take refuge in
the Disney, the Rides, and the E Ticketholders?
