ABSTRACT

For Baudrillard it is becoming difficult to distinguish Disneyland from the real America – when we think of Disneyland we think it is fantasy, and thus believe there is a real America somewhere else. However, we err if we think Disneyland is false, Disneyland is America, it is real, except it is hyper-real. The new social order makes it difficult to accept the binary oppositions of the true-false, allowedprohibited, science-metaphysics, black-white, woman-man – reality has become a spectacle, and the social world a cosmos of swirling world of signs.