{"quotes":[{"text":"Whatever form it might take, enjoy the magic! Remember, Disneyland is all about you.","author":"Leslie Le Mon","tags":["disney","disneyland","magic","vacations"],"id":7641,"author_id":"Leslie+Le+Mon"},{"text":"People who go to Disney who have magic in themselves experience magic there, just as people who go to the grocery store who have magic in themselves experience magic at the grocery store. The principle is simple: fun, joy, and happiness, are something we bring to life, not something life, circumstance, or situation bring to us. There are truly no magic kingdoms, only magic people.\tFun, joy and happiness are choices, orientations, approaches, attitudes, a way of living in the world, not the world itself...","author":"David W. Jones","tags":["attitude","disney-world","disneyland","happiness","happiness-choices","happiness-life","happiness-positive-outlook","magic"],"id":20449,"author_id":"David+W.+Jones"},{"text":"It wasn’t a party that a Republican could understand--the marijuana smoke sweet on the air, the occasional cocaine sniffle, cold Mexican beer, good food, great conversation, and laughter--but a Parisian deconstructionist scholar might find it about as civilized as America gets. Or at least the one I met, who was visiting at UTEP, maintained. Somewhere along the way, he claimed, Americans had forgotten how to have a good time. In the name of good health, good taste, and political correctness from both sides of the spectrum, we were being taught how to behave. America was becoming a theme park, not as in entertainment, but as in a fascist Disneyland.","author":"James Crumley","tags":["america","cocaine","disneyland","republicans"],"id":52214,"author_id":"James+Crumley"},{"text":"The purpose of Disneyland is to make people smile.","author":"Kevin Plank","tags":["purpose","people","disneyland "],"id":71272,"author_id":"Kevin+Plank"},{"text":"Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiques, jeux d'espace [Utopias, play of space]): digest of the American way of life, panegyric of American values, idealized transposition of a contradictory reality. Certainly. But this masks something else and this 'ideological' blanket functions as a cover for a simulation of the third order: Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the 'real' country, all of 'real' America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.","author":"Jean Baudrillard","tags":["america","disneyland","simulacra","simulation"],"id":74507,"author_id":"Jean+Baudrillard"},{"text":"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.","author":"Walt Disney Company","tags":["disneyland","imagination","world"],"id":97223,"author_id":"Walt+Disney+Company"},{"text":"Compared to the rest of the world, it's like we're living in Disneyland.","author":"David Servant","tags":["christianity","disneyland","poverty","stewardship","truth","wealth"],"id":112564,"author_id":"David+Servant"},{"text":"For many, it's a once-in-a-lifetime, long dreamed-of and longed-saved-for trip. Pennies have been pinched and sacrifices made to make the vacation a reality. All Guests' wallets will be separated from a great deal of money, like trout expertly filleted, but it will be a curious;y painless experience, for all but a few, the trip will be transcendently and sublimely worth every sacrifice and penny.","author":"Leslie Le Mon","tags":["disneyland","sacrifice","vacations"],"id":168785,"author_id":"Leslie+Le+Mon"},{"text":"On some level, with its carrousels and castle and cowboys, its mysterious jungle and its animated characters, Disneyland is a highly idealized elaboration of our childhoods. It can be seen as a portal through which we revisit (maybe even heal) our youth.","author":"Leslie Le Mon","tags":["childhood","disneyland","healing-the-past","revisiting-childhood"],"id":202218,"author_id":"Leslie+Le+Mon"},{"text":"Eventually I would learn that the enchanting tree was one of the resort's signatures, one of those subtle delightful touches that resonate on poetic, artistic, and even spiritual frequencies.","author":"Leslie Le Mon","tags":["disneyland","magic","twinkling-lights"],"id":204785,"author_id":"Leslie+Le+Mon"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}