Disneyland Is Presented As Imaginary In Order

Large Department Stores, With Their Luxuriant Abundance Of Canned Goods, Foods, And Clothing, Are Like The Primary Landscape And The Geometrical Locus Of Affluence. Streets With Overcrowded And Glittering Store Windowsthe Displays Of Delicacies, And All The Scenes Of Alimentary And Vestimentary Festivity, Stimulate A Magical Salivation. Accumulation Is More Than The Sum Of Its Products: The Conspicuousness Of Surplus, The Final And Magical Negation Of Scarcitymimic A New-found Nature Of Prodigious Fecundity.

In Its Artless Cruelty, Dallas Is Superior To Any "intelligent" Critique That Can Be Made Of It. That Is Why Intellectual Snobberymeets Its Match Here.

We Are No Longer Dealing With Historical Events, But With Places Of Collapse.

Protect Everything, Detect Everything, Contain Everything - Obsessional Society. Save Time. Save Money. Save Our Souls - Phobic Society. Low Tar. Low Energy. Low Calories. Low Sex. Low Speed - Anorexic Society.

When The Real Is No Longer What It Used To Be, Nostalgia Assumes Its Full Meaning.