“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation.”
Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard
“They came to California to die.”
The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
“A lady of ice in a desert zone
Where a web of lies has turned to stone” 🎵
Unreal city. The spectacle! The spectacle! Sent this to The Lover. “Is that you?” Decade of apotheosis: I’ve made it. I’m a white American man, detached, nonchalantly existential, and unbearably cool. Forget Vienna: I want a LAX runway and a dysfunctional Boeing. Time for takeoff. Depression makes momentary protagonists of us all. I am it! “You met me at a very strange time in my life.”