“Futuristic man will live such a wonderful life! Everything will come to him so, so easily! If someone knocks at the door, you won’t have to go to see who it is: He will appear on the screen of your television. If the telephone rings, you’ll be able to see the person you’re speaking with and not just hear his voice. And a thousand other such conveniences will turn your house into a royal palace and transform you yourself into a lazy, fat, lonely king.”
Quick, someone put this into an Internet-of-Things sales pitch!
It's strange to me to read a gifted author lavish such praise on another creative talent. It felt very genuine and inspired - which is pretty much how I feel when I visit Disney World. For all the flaws of Disney, the creations of the man and the company hit the target exactly - I feel like a kid again when I experience them.
I wonder if we would have gotten such an honest description of awe from Wiesel's contemporaries. Would Sartre, Camus or Orwell have been as impressed? I couldn't say for certain, but I can say that no one had experienced more atrocities to contrast the experience with. That says something big about the magic of Disney's creation.
> I wonder if we would have gotten such an honest description of awe from Wiesel's contemporaries. Would Sartre, Camus or Orwell have been as impressed? I couldn't say for certain, but I can say that no one had experienced more atrocities to contrast the experience with. That says something big about the magic of Disney's creation.
Sartre and Camus were almost certainly less compassionate, nostalgic or otherwise prone to being guided in their writing by emotion; I would also say they were more serious authors than Wiesel, one cannot really imagine them being excited by as an adjacent commentator pointed out:
>> “Futuristic man will live such a wonderful life! Everything will come to him so, so easily! If someone knocks at the door, you won’t have to go to see who it is: He will appear on the screen of your television. If the telephone rings, you’ll be able to see the person you’re speaking with and not just hear his voice. And a thousand other such conveniences will turn your house into a royal palace and transform you yourself into a lazy, fat, lonely king.”
> Quick, someone put this into an Internet-of-Things sales pitch!
Consider Wiesel's words in this article:
>> Wiesel understands why: “If one wants to calm his nerves and forget the bitter realities of daily life, there is no better-suited place to do so than Disneyland. In Disneyland, the land of children’s dreams, everything is simple, beautiful, good. There, no one screams at his fellow, no one is exploited by his fellow, no one’s fortune derives from his fellow’s misfortune. If children had the right to vote, they would vote Disney their president. And the whole world would look different.”
There seems to be an immediacy, and almost childish sincerity to them and his own willingness to suspend reality (including his own personal experience) and believe in the Disney world. Constrast this to e.g. Sartre's No Exit - in the later there is also the suspension of reality for illusion if you will, but rather than being immediate or sincere the reader is faced with it unraveling into something Hellish. Which is to say that I cannot imagine a serious author calling Disney a genius - but take this with a grain of salt if being serious means being unable to suspend your own reality for a brief moment of childish happiness.
Which is to say that I cannot imagine a serious author calling Disney a genius - but take this with a grain of salt if being serious means being unable to suspend your own reality for a brief moment of childish happiness.
I like writing fiction, but I'll gladly give up being taken seriously as an author if being a serious fiction writer means giving up the ability to enjoy flights of fancy. In fact, I have trouble understanding how even the most serious fiction can work without it.
There is, or at least was, a plaque above a bench on a Main Street porch dedicated to Disney's business partner for Disneyland. He was, IIRC, an expert in hospitality.
The plaque read: 'A clean environment is a pleasure to the senses.'
As a kid, I remember being amused at the number of sweepers, dressed in striped shirts, pressed white pants and straw hats, whisking popcorn and straw wrappers off the walkways. In spite of tens of thousands of people, mostly kids, running and discarding, the park was always immaculate. It impresses me to this day not just that so much attention was given to cleanliness, but that Disney realized how much it mattered.
Eli Weasel is an awful person. In 2010 he flipped out when the US, which sends billions a year in tribute to Israel, asked for new settlements to slow down or halt in East Jerusalem. Instant New York Times full page ad, paid for by mt tax dollars sent to Israel presumably "Jerusalem is above politics...It belongs to the Jewish people". Jerusalem belongs to the Jewish people? Tell that to the Palestinian families living there 2000 years or more. Sounds a lot like the "Munich is an Aryan city" stuff he has whined about for the past decades. Then again, he whined in his book about how the secular Jews in the concentration camps didn't care about religious Jews like him. Whine, whine, whine. The reality is some of the secular Jews were risking their lives protecting idiots like him, he doesn't know this (or else is a liar), then whines and complains about it. What was he doing to protect secular Jews? They were risking their lives protecting ungrateful people like him.
He's always front and center when Gaza needs to be bombed (hundreds of other people from the camps condemned him for his Gaza statements in 2014), settlements need to be built in the West Bank etc. All from my American tax money I worked for as well - which goes to him so he can lecture me about his bloodthirsty desires while playing the martyr and victim, the conscience of the world or some nonsense. Barf.
In Israel he's considered a fool by many, but this bloodthirsty wacko is held up as the conscience of the world or some nonsense in the USA. I guess they don't know his history, or don't care. He also criticized discussions of the Armenian genocide, wants gentile victims of the Nazis ousted from memorials (he hates secular Jews so much he would probably oust them if he could).
Blah, what a fraud and a phony. As someone once said, a terrible fraud.
Note that @dang, the "moderator", who will instantly jump in and shadowban people who say anything that's not "progressive" will approve of complete lies like the one above. I guess that's what the YCombinator logic compels him to do.
-2 points for remembering the most heinous crime of the 20th century, if not of all times. Shame to see a progressive place like hackernews is actually an Holocaust deniers' den...
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Quick, someone put this into an Internet-of-Things sales pitch!
I wonder if we would have gotten such an honest description of awe from Wiesel's contemporaries. Would Sartre, Camus or Orwell have been as impressed? I couldn't say for certain, but I can say that no one had experienced more atrocities to contrast the experience with. That says something big about the magic of Disney's creation.
Sartre and Camus were almost certainly less compassionate, nostalgic or otherwise prone to being guided in their writing by emotion; I would also say they were more serious authors than Wiesel, one cannot really imagine them being excited by as an adjacent commentator pointed out:
>> “Futuristic man will live such a wonderful life! Everything will come to him so, so easily! If someone knocks at the door, you won’t have to go to see who it is: He will appear on the screen of your television. If the telephone rings, you’ll be able to see the person you’re speaking with and not just hear his voice. And a thousand other such conveniences will turn your house into a royal palace and transform you yourself into a lazy, fat, lonely king.”
> Quick, someone put this into an Internet-of-Things sales pitch!
Consider Wiesel's words in this article:
>> Wiesel understands why: “If one wants to calm his nerves and forget the bitter realities of daily life, there is no better-suited place to do so than Disneyland. In Disneyland, the land of children’s dreams, everything is simple, beautiful, good. There, no one screams at his fellow, no one is exploited by his fellow, no one’s fortune derives from his fellow’s misfortune. If children had the right to vote, they would vote Disney their president. And the whole world would look different.”
There seems to be an immediacy, and almost childish sincerity to them and his own willingness to suspend reality (including his own personal experience) and believe in the Disney world. Constrast this to e.g. Sartre's No Exit - in the later there is also the suspension of reality for illusion if you will, but rather than being immediate or sincere the reader is faced with it unraveling into something Hellish. Which is to say that I cannot imagine a serious author calling Disney a genius - but take this with a grain of salt if being serious means being unable to suspend your own reality for a brief moment of childish happiness.
Which is to say that I cannot imagine a serious author calling Disney a genius - but take this with a grain of salt if being serious means being unable to suspend your own reality for a brief moment of childish happiness.
I like writing fiction, but I'll gladly give up being taken seriously as an author if being a serious fiction writer means giving up the ability to enjoy flights of fancy. In fact, I have trouble understanding how even the most serious fiction can work without it.
The plaque read: 'A clean environment is a pleasure to the senses.'
As a kid, I remember being amused at the number of sweepers, dressed in striped shirts, pressed white pants and straw hats, whisking popcorn and straw wrappers off the walkways. In spite of tens of thousands of people, mostly kids, running and discarding, the park was always immaculate. It impresses me to this day not just that so much attention was given to cleanliness, but that Disney realized how much it mattered.
He's always front and center when Gaza needs to be bombed (hundreds of other people from the camps condemned him for his Gaza statements in 2014), settlements need to be built in the West Bank etc. All from my American tax money I worked for as well - which goes to him so he can lecture me about his bloodthirsty desires while playing the martyr and victim, the conscience of the world or some nonsense. Barf.
In Israel he's considered a fool by many, but this bloodthirsty wacko is held up as the conscience of the world or some nonsense in the USA. I guess they don't know his history, or don't care. He also criticized discussions of the Armenian genocide, wants gentile victims of the Nazis ousted from memorials (he hates secular Jews so much he would probably oust them if he could).
Blah, what a fraud and a phony. As someone once said, a terrible fraud.
Do continue to channel your gentile tax money for a Greater Israel though. You're with us or with the terrorists.