Pre-blog post

Baudrillards' piece was interesting in how it speaks about hyperreal and how it compares reality to Disneyland. Baudrillard explains " Disneyland is a perfect model of all the entangled orders of simulacra. It is the first of all a play of illusions and phantasms: the Pirates, the Frontier, the Future World, etc. This imaginary world is supposed to ensure the success of the operation" (393). The reading goes into speaking about how "everywhere in Disneyland is the objective profile of America, down to the morphology of individuals and of the crowd" (393). I think it is interesting how Baudrillard compares this notion of what is reality to Disneyland. Disneyland as I picture it offers an ideological view of what reality is like, or supposed to be. When I have entered Disneyland it makes you feel comfortable, relaxed and at ease. It creates a reality in which all outside issues in your life disappear because this is true reality or the idealized version of it. Baudrillard then explains "this masks something else and this ideological blanket functions as a cover...Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the 'real' America that is Disneyland" (393). It proposes the question in which what is reality and what do we perceive is our reality? Is our reality a place of all ideological perceptions that have been perceived over time? We often refer to the "real world" as though it is not pleasurable but we argue that it is what we consider "real." I think it is interesting how Baudrillard argues that hyperreal we experience are models of a real without origin or reality. Overall, I think this theorist offers a critical view in how reality is perceived and that we are often in questioning of what it truly means. Understanding this concept was difficult at first but once the theorist compared it to the fantasies of Disneyland it became easier to comprehend.