Campster
@Campster

So tonight I found out about the proposed right wing Disneyland in Oklahoma. Sorta.


lily-detrick
@lily-detrick

Oh my GOD I'm putting this thing in my fucking video game. Are you fucking KIDDING me I already have a fucking Route 66 motif going on in-between all of my games Oh My Fucking God oh my fucking god. Holy shit thank you so much for bringing this stupid piece of shit nightmare theme park to my attention. This is like. SO FUCKING PERFECT. It's like, SO FUCKING CLOSE to Afton, Oklahoma, too, which is where the finale of my last game was set. 17 minute drive. I mean what the fuck.


Xuelder
@Xuelder

It's so funny cause, as my dad puts it, car culture and the freedom to go anywhere is what defined his era(late Boomer/Early Gen X). With Suburbia taking away third spaces, it's not a surprise that the car became the center of our cultural touchstones in the 60s-90s. However, that same machine and culture destroyed Americana and then ate itself. We wouldn't have a lot of chain stores without the parking minimums creating sprawling parking lots that only national corpos could afford. Downtowns died because nobody could afford to pave over these "America Heartland" people's "paradise" and put up a parking lot. Climate Town recently made a great video on this topic, I wholly recommend it.

We can't even build our cultures around our cars anymore, cause the pursuit to make cars economical has taken all the vibrancy out of design. I don't think it's coincidence that Top Gear took off like it did right when the economy went to shit in 2008 (not to mention the cash for clunkers shitshow). Nobody could afford the cool cars and needed to live vicariously through these presenters. In reality, it became SUVs all the way down and they all look the god damn same. Instead of making them more efficient to meet environmental standards, the corpos would rather discontinue iconic brands(Dodge Challenger) or paradoxically making trucks bigger and less efficient to jump through environmental regulation loopholes. Car companies killed car culture, just like they killed third spaces, downtowns, trains, public transportation, the environment, and our old communities.


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to be fair, a high budget Immersive Fascist Theme Park already exists, in kentucky, its called "Arc Encounter", and the ammount of lore worldbuilding and pseudoscientific mental gymnastics they did for it is honestly impressive, i say as a worldbuilder myself.

it is a enormous 1:1 full scale "replica" of noah's ark (if you can build a replica of a mythical object existing only in sacred texts), featuring intricate and desperate justifications as to why noah's ark would have been possible to Literally Exist In Real Life And Not Just As A Myth Or Metaphor, animitronics, a whole fake branch of science they and their friends made up caled bereminology which is like "well phylogenists did all the work but we don't agree with their conclusions so we're just going to take everything they've done and twist it to match our story", movies, restaurants.

the people who run it really do consider themselves the "good american christian values" alternative to disney, and having heard someone describe going there, it certainly sounds like they succeeded at the "immersive theme park" thing by making the bible as their IP their customers care about, and expanding all their biblical blorbos into full characters.

it sounds kind of horrifying! lmao

i think the government helped fund it as well

seeing someone mention the Ark Encounter and I felt compelled to add some Further Reading:

this video is probably the best and most comprehensive overview I've found of just. everything with YEC nonsense, especially as it pertains to the dual whammy of the Ark + Creation Museum. These two """attractions""" form what is effectively the holy land for YECs.

It occurs to me that, while conservatives are pretty much wrong about basically everything, they're never more wrong than when they try to prove that people love them every bit as fun and popular as people who don't bother to build their entire identities around hatred. They spend enormous amounts of money on their figurative anti-anti-proms and associated parallel infrastructure. It never occurs to them to analyze the failure of the last time their peers tried essentially the same things. And then they need to invent a new version of (what's currently) "cancel culture" to explain to each other why nobody wants to hang out with them.

And they just refuse to believe that not being an actively hateful jerk takes almost no effort.

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