Yo dawg, we heard you like parking lots, so we put a parking lot in your parking lot
It'll be interesting when America is 90% parking lot and 90% of Americans too poor to own a car. The contradictions will be so high when everyone must pay eternal rent to Elon Musk for killing any hope of public transit.
it's like the part in simulacra and simulation where baudrillard compares the disneyland parking lot to a concentration camp, but even bigger and there aren't even any rides
Disneyland is a perfect model of all the entangled orders of simulation. To begin with it is a play of illusions and phantasms: pirates, the frontier, future world, etc. This imaginary world is supposed to be what makes the operation successful. But, what draws the crowds is undoubtedly much more the social microcosm, the miniaturized and religious revelling in real America, in its delights and drawbacks. You park outside, queue up inside, and are totally abandoned at the exit. In this imaginary world the only phantasmagoria is in the inherent warmth and affection of the crowd, and in that aufficiently excessive number of gadgets used there to specifically maintain the multitudinous affect. The contrast with the absolute solitude of the parking lot - a veritable concentration camp - is total. Or rather: inside, a whole range of gadgets magnetize the crowd into direct flows; outside, solitude is directed onto a single gadget: the automobile.
Holy fucking shit, is that a NEW Wojak face? Or at least an edited one?
The Beijing Winter Olympics are a great win for the west. It allowed them to massively innovate in the art of being annoying.
everything they know about china is wrong. not surprising. here's a short doc about the olympic park btw https://youtu.be/l7RpYYgJwRE
